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Offline K.S.TRAPPER

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Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« on: August 27, 2011, 11:12:00 AM »
A buddy of mine (minuteman) Chris Parker from Indiana left this Ash stave in my Tipi accidently at Mojam years ago. He said to go ahead and finish it out and see what I get.

 He had heated the tips and put a little static curve in them and had it ruffed out to about 100# bow so I can't say I did all the work, There was a lot of tillering to be done with this bow.

I wanted a dark bow for doing some ground and blind hunting for turkeys this year so I put some sinew on it covered it with some old left over side trimings from a very large Texas rattler and stained it black.


     

     

     

     

Hits hard and came out 50#@28 58" Really like how it's shoots.

     

Tracy
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2011, 11:59:00 AM »
Nice bow. Clean lines and good tiller!  Well done.
  Haven't heard from Chris in a long time. He used to be on PA a lot and I got to meet him at the Tenn. Classic a few years ago. Tell him hi for me when you see him next.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2011, 02:55:00 PM »
Love that full draw, Tracy! Another Dandy looker!
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2011, 03:09:00 PM »
Nice bow, Tracy. Clean and simple.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2011, 05:09:00 PM »
Looks good Bud!! Can't wait to see all these nice bows in person in a couple months!
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2011, 09:04:00 PM »
That's pretty!
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2011, 09:18:00 PM »
Very nice, love the color
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2011, 09:33:00 PM »
Thanks guys  :)  

Pat, I will make sure to tell Chris you said hello.

I can't wait for November Ryan, We will have a great time buddy.

Tracy
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2011, 09:56:00 PM »
Very nice...thanks for sharing....


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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2011, 10:40:00 PM »
Man that is Super Nice, Was it a sapling stave? flat belly or D? Very nice again.

  Good on you, Chuck
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2011, 12:17:00 AM »
Looks good Tracy. All this bow making must be good rehab/therapy for you.
Pass on a "Hi' to Chris for me too.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2011, 12:24:00 AM »
very nice.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2011, 07:27:00 AM »
Thats a sharp profile, nice. How many layers of sinew did you put one her? What kind of glue did you go with?
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2011, 10:38:00 AM »
Very good, nice tiller.  Bue--.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2011, 07:40:00 PM »
Who's that good looking S.O.B. You got to pull it all the way back for the picture?

Great looking little bow Tracy. Keep up the good work.

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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2011, 10:15:00 PM »
crgibson, This stave came from a split log stave and it does have a flat belly.

Paul its keeping me plenty busy and I'm having a lot of fun building them so yeah it's good therapy for sure  :D  

Pearl Drums, It has two layers of sinew because that is all I had at the time and I did use hide glue.

Hey Brett check out that flat elbow thats as far as I can go   :biglaugh:  I'm just glad to finally be pulling some bows to full draw it's been 4 months since surgery.

I will be ready for opening day.  :jumper:  

Thanks for looking guys and the nice comments  :)  

Tracy
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2011, 04:39:00 PM »
Glad to hear Your gonna be ready to hunt Tracy. Work has kept Me so busy I haven't been able to get down to see You. Sorry!!

Already been threatened that We have to work every weekend after this coming one in Sept. and the first 3 in Oct.. Hope it winds down by the RUT.

Keep up the good work. Love seeing those finished bows coming out of Your shop.

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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2011, 10:43:00 PM »
Hey, that's really pretty.
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2011, 12:17:00 PM »
What mwirwicki said x2!
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Re: Finished sinew/snakeskin backed ash self bow
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2011, 10:13:00 PM »
Real nice, good turkey bow!
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