You might be a Tradgang Bowyer if...

[DesertFox]

1. To you, a compound bow is just a gun that fires arrows, not a Bow.

2. The expensive Martin recurve you purchased is gathering dust while your handmade bows get lavished with attention. (this one is me right now  :p )

3. You find yourself looking at hardwood furniture as potential bow materials instead of as furniture.

Add your own if this looks like fun to you. Otherwise, ignore it  :p

[walkabout]

1. You do 35 in a 55 zone looking for rivercane growing in ditches.
2. you find yourself pulling dried layers of titebond glue off your hands at least 3 times a day.
3. your wife/girlfriend asks you where all your new tshirts have disapeared to and you reply that you used them for tung oil.
4. when you pull a wad of dollar bills out of your pocket it is always accompanied by a significant amount of sawdust or wood shavings.

[Paul/KS]

You slow down and check out straight trees as you are driving to work/home...

(Then you wonder about how hard it would be to cut it down and sneak it out...)

[PZee]

Ghee, I've got it bad and I'm not nearly as accomplished as most the bowyers on this site. Actually I don't call myself a bowyer, but I do most of the above.

I go around hardwood flooring companies asking for offcuts and old sample boards. Make great handles, powerlams and tip overlays!

[Andrew Wesley]

if you look at a bonfire with disgust.

[George Tsoukalas]

If you go buy a cord of firewood and think to yourself, "What a waste!" Jawge

[Stiks-n-Strings]

If you had more fun trashing your first stave than shooting the bow you already have.


 Paul, my wife won't let me drive anymore LOL

 Stiks

[chrisg]

in SA we BURN a fabulous hard wood called leadwood/hardekool and its equally magical cousin rooibos or redbushwillow. Ok so they make braaied meat taste like heaven..Both are heavier than water- they sink. My pile of take outs for bow handles and tip overlays, knife handles is larger than the wood we plan to burn...
chrisg!

[Hermann From Bavaria]

1. if you nearly have a car-accident cause you check out trees standing beside of the road,

2. your girlfriend or wife call you a "bowbuilding-addict"

3. i you are trainig your form under the shower (or everywhere you feel unobservated)

4. checkout the whole www for bow-building materials and tools

5. after finishing and shooting your new bow, the next bow grows already in your mind.

6. a simple question from a non-bowyer about bow-things ends up in hours of explanations.

and so on...

greets herm

[DesertFox]

Originally posted by walkabout:
1. You do 35 in a 55 zone looking for rivercane growing in ditches.
2. you find yourself pulling dried layers of titebond glue off your hands at least 3 times a day.
3. your wife/girlfriend asks you where all your new tshirts have disapeared to and you reply that you used them for tung oil.
4. when you pull a wad of dollar bills out of your pocket it is always accompanied by a significant amount of sawdust or wood shavings.

I have to laugh at how every single one of those has happened to me  :p

[Mike Most]

1. You just laid down a new bamboo floor, and you were hoping for a couple left over boxes of bamboo (regardless of cost).

2. You keep your bows on your bed so you can feel graceful curves while your sleeping.

(what can I say)

[Rap.]

When you are hunting, you are too busy looking at prospective stave trees to see your quarry.

You have so many bows you can't decide which one to shoot.

Your first deer with a primitive,self made equipment felt like your first deer ever.

[jess stuart]

You gentlemen are very very sick, and should seek professional help immediately.  HA HA it is a wonderful sickness isn't it.

[jsweka]

1. You have yet to make the perfect bow ('cause if you did you wouldn't be making bows anymore)

2. Your wife starts telling you what wood combinations look good together.

3. You shoot more than one bow per day.

[kodiakkid]

you blow your nose and it's yellow

[DVSHUNTER]

1. All your clothes have yellow stains from osage dust.

2.  You have ever grilled with osage for charcole.

3. You have ever drove seven hours to sleep in a truck just so you can make it to OJAM.

4. You have spent more than four hours at once reading through the archives

[Thumper Dunker]

Dang . And to think theres no cure. I think I do all the above.Tell your wife that those are not sticks growing there thats new arrows.

[J. Holden]

You look at a section of the chair rail at work and think it would make a nice board bow!

-Jeremy

[chrisg]

someone asks you about the spicy new deodorant you have on, nah, thats Padauk, no not paprika dust, PADAUK
chrisg

[Osagetree]

you can't stop yanking on a drawknife even though your wrist has been fused, you have a compression fracture in the T8 mid-spine and your shop is over 90 degrees!