What happened to al the selfbow makers on here?

[bbassi]

It use to be you couldn't go a week without seeing someones newest creation on here. Now it seems like we never see them. What's up with that? I need some inspiration for this winter!

[vermonster13]

They're all still hunting. Have to use those creations sometime.

[Danny Roberts]

I just finished 2 ash flat bows for nephew Christmas presents and I'm trying to finish the 3rd, a hickory. If I can find my daughter's camera, I'll put 'em on. Good huntin'.
DR

[Walt Francis]

Bow building season dosen't start here in Montana, at least for me, until the middle of January.

[Jack Shanks]

They are busy making Christmas presents for all the rest of us less skilled people on this site.

[bayoulongbowman]

Christmas, Hunting, working to pay for 3.OO @ gallon gas!!!Ho HO HO  

[Falk]

Yew-LB in the works but will still need some time. I doubt I can find the tranquility I need to finish it befor end of year. But I plan to post some pics if it doesn't blow on me.

posted by bayoulongbowman: working to pay for 3.OO @ gallon gas!!!

... now, thats funny right there - you lucky dog! I pay $7.42 nowadays and getting worse ...!!!

[TexMex]

No it's not    I hate it.

[John Scifres]

I have vowed to get back out in the shop.  Starting this weekend.  In fact, I may be meeting a new cyberbuddy to split some osage he pilfered from somewhere.

I promise to do a buildalong in the next month or so.  I've got some osage to cut too so I'll do a cutalong in January also.

[Mark Baker]

Like Walt said....that, and the wife says she needs a "break" from all the hunting crap!  Of course she thinks bowbuilding is directly connected to hunting....she's  right I guess.  She also seems to think the bills need paid.

I posted these two pics earlier this fall, during the season, and they probably got lost in the hunting thread, but I'll show them again for you.  

These bows I started late in the summer, and it was October before I got them finished.  They were both "experiments" of sorts by me.  

The flatbow is backed with elk sinew from a previously "blown-up" bow from 10 years ago....the bow blew, but the backing held.  I peeled the backing and  saved it all these years, reapplying  it to this bow.   It worked fine!  I killed three deer with it this fall.   I named this bow "Frankenstein", on account it is made from previously dead parts!

The static recurve  is also made from a previous  bow that just did'nt cut the mustard...so I cut it down, bent the tips,  then added buffalo sinew to the working part of  the limbs.   It has impressive cast and smoothness...I've yet to hunt with it, but it is also  a  real shooter.  Both  the sinew jobs  I used titebond 3...first time  for that, and  I   like  the results!    I named this  bow  "The Bride"  since both were built at the same  time.   Both bows are 58  inches nock to  nock,  and pull  in  the mid-sixties at 28ish.    

 

Here is my trusty, bug-eating, lab, assistant.

 

And a close-up of the tips.

 

I got several in the works....but won't get to  them until  after  the  holidays....I  think.

[Scott E]

I'll be doing a build along in mid january for a bamboo backed hickory r/d bow. But right now I gotta get me a deer.    -Scott

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Those are Beautiful bows Mark!

I hope to give a BBO a try pretty soon!

[elkbow]

got a bamboo backed osage on the table to do but the freezer needs filled first and i'm not talking beef.

[Mechslasher]

i'll be finishing one up in the next week or so.  i'll post pics!!

[gordonf]

Working on a hazelnut selfbow and a bamboo backed lemonwood bow. I'll post pics after the holidays.

[Mark Smeltzer]

Here is a couple of mine.
Mark

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/OsageBow015.jpg  

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/YewBow002.jpg
 http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/Osageselfbow015.jpg
 http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e125/MDS65/SnakeyOsageRecurve049.jpg

[NorthShoreLB]

I got a Eucalyptus and a Guava ELB's tillered, just need to put a finish and grips on them, a silk baked Elm  flat bow almost done, a silk backed Osage almost done, and a sinew backed Guava in the very last tillering stages,....I just can't find the time to work on them   :mad:    :mad:

[Dave Coalter]

John,
I would like to see a cutalong and your build along with the osage. Thats something that I always wanted to do. Maybe you can finaly get me going.

[Holm-Made]

Nice to see there is still some wood bow builders.  I too was wondering if the trend hadn't moved from selfbows to lam bows.  Chad

[Eric Krewson]

I tried to stop bowmaking for hunting season. Every time I walked through my shop the yellow wood would lure me in. Chase a grain here, heat straighten a challanging stave there, lay out a bow, floor tiller one, just can't stop I guess.