You might be a Tradgang Bowyer if...

[Pointman]

* If you spend $4000 on tools to make a $200 bow.

[4est trekker]

You mulch your garden with bow shavings...um, guilty as charged!

[DVSHUNTER]

the people at the post office ask you to let them seal the tubes that you mail your bows in so they can see the bows first.

[J. Holden]

You watch your friend prepare to smoke some ribs, with hickory chips, and wonder if there was a bow there.

-Jeremy

[bjansen]

* If you spend $4000 on tools to make a $200 bow.


Well said Pointman!

[UnderControl16]

Originally posted by Johan van Niekerk:
you've spend an entire day at a lumber yard checking individual planks over and over and then left not buying any. Which frustrates the crap outt the salesman who KNOWS you'll be back within the week to repeat the whole exercise in case you "missed a good one"   :D  

Exactly how it goes.

[Dublin Joe]

If you've tillered a stick of edge moulding then lodged a dowel rod in a cardboard box full of broken limbs and assorted scraps.

[scrub-buster]

I got another one.


You drive 150 miles one way in a 15 mpg truck to meet two guys named Ed Scott and Gary Davis.

[Loren Holland]

1)you ever skipped work to work on a bow. When you went to work the next day, your coworkers laughed and asked if you had "bow fever"?

2)you carry around half finished bow in the truck in case someone wants to see them

3)a complete stranger offered you a free osage log, because he saw three broken bows in the corner of your office

4) you take bows to work to show everyone, every new completed step

5)coworkers run when they see you coming with a bow in hand

6)anyone asking you how you made that gets an explanation over two hours long

[JustinNC]

I'm new at this but I'll try...

You ride through an area with some storm damage looking for potential bow wood...and find it.

Scored a big black locust tree and 3 or 4 permisson trees about the size of your leg.  

[Eric Krewson]

The scrap wood pile in your bow shop becomes so huge you have to burn it or abandon the shop. As you look through the worthless scrap you keep pulling pieces out thinking "kids bow" "tip overlays", "handle sections", "tool handles" and such.

When, with much sadness, you finally light the fire, you can't stand to watch the yellow wood burn so you are compelled to go elsewhere until the dirty deed is done and the pile is consumed by flames.

[Kevin Breaux]

The smell of Smooth-on is a aphrodisiac    

Guess that would make URAC foreplay?

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

...girlfriend ...wives ...  whats that !!!!

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

...you supply half your county with kindling !!!

[Bob Tebeau]

1. When you are running out of room and wall space to hang your bows

2. When everyone tells you to sell some of your bows (but you just can't do it)

3. When you iust stand there and look at your bows and it makes you feel wonderful.

Lots of fum guys!!

[red hill]

When you sit watching TV with a partially finished stave/bow in your hands because it just feels good.
Stan

[Balding Kansan]

You look forward to every chance you get to use the bathroom because you keep the bowyers bibles and the latest 3R mag on the back of the stool.

[chuprinko]

How about,
When your wife and kids ask, "So how many times can you read those Bowyers Bibles and not get bored!
Or you pull off the side of a major interstate during rush hour to chop off the wings of recently hit turkey, and make your friends in your car wait while you do it!

[Mike Most]

Guilty as charged, "Red Hill"

[levibear]

Your wife says to you
"Why don't you take up something cheap like cocaine"