What did you do today?

[bigbob2]

" I don't see no wood there Son' Thats 'cause all that moonshine you drink has sent you blind in one eye and you already couldn't see out the other anyhows.    tony don't think ol' Roy would have the stamina to drink a real beer like Fosters! [  but just between you and I , i cant stand the stuff myself!] On the other issue hardly a day goes by and I'm not leaving a blood trail like a wounded boar in the workshop.

[Roy from Pa]

I hear ya John, those fiberglass splinters are nasty. Cool Tony, hope ya get them bloody this fall.

[LittleBen]

Bob I like your bows more and more ever time I see one up here.  Great job!

[stringstretcher]

Did you all notice that Old Roy could not count his days to retirement until he got down to 20 or under???  Just not enough toes and fingers to count that high.  

[Buemaker]

Nice work Bob, I like them down under woods.Bue--.

[Dan Landis]

Bob, you're really crankin out some sweet looking bows, this last one really looks nice.

[razorback]

I just about have my daughters Osage bow finished. it has a couple of coats of tung oil on it and tonight I will hit it with a couple of coats of spray on poly. When I get back from a weekend trip it will be ready for its leather handle and then i get to surprise her and give it to her. I have had her working as a consultant on it. I told her it was for a guy on Tradgangs little girl who was her age. She has sized the handle, picked the walnut tip overlays and given critical advice along the way. Will be fun to see the look on her face when she realises she is the daughter of the guy on Tradgang.

Roy's a good ole Pennsyltucky mountain man, he's got plenty of fingers and toes    

Roy I sure hope to get at least one of them bloody this fall. Any suggestions on how to practice with them, without doing any damage. Hate to damage the head before using it in earnest, but hate not to practice to make sure I can shoot them straight.

Bob, I tell people over here the reason we export Fosters is because we wont drink that s!@#, but Americans will    I'm hoping my dad brings me some VB or a Crown Lager when he comes for a visit this summer.

[Roy from Pa]

A 3-D target with a soft replaceable center doesn't hurt them. I wouldn't shoot them anymore than needed.

[halfseminole]

Posting from right inside that massive stormfront in AL.  Lightnin's hit the yard a few times, but nothing more.

[bigbob2]

Thanks for the kind words ,gents.Tony I like 4x or Hann lite myself.Envy you guys with all the Osage available over there, bit harder to come by here even though it was planted out many years ago in various places as wind break material.

[jsweka]

My latest bow shoots 55-60# ash arrows really well and I had a dozen shafts I bought last year at Denton Hill that I hadn't started on yet.  After shooting some this afternoon, I was inspired to get to work on them, so I cut them to length, tapered the point end and started tapering the knock end with one of those pencil sharpener type tools.  Wouldn't you know it, I ended up with one shaft with two point tapers on it.  Doh......  

[Roy from Pa]

ROFLMAO >>>----------------> Goose Island maybe?  

That's nuffen John, I'm right handed and have already made me two left handed bows:)

[jsweka]

Lack of sleep maybe.  Wish it was Goose Island.

How many Coors Lights did those lefties take to build?

[Roy from Pa]

Oh it was Pabst Blue Ribbon when I made those mistakes. That's why I quit drinking that stuff..  

[red hill]

Yesterday I cut and rasped a bbo to it's profile lines. This afternoon I reduced the limb thickness. Just about ready to floor tiller and hopefully get it on the tiller tree.

I had to give up on my last bbo. I tried heating in a little recurve into the tips and ended up with the tips way too weak. Maybe I'll be able to turn that one into a shorter bow this summer.

[Roy from Pa]

Oh I had such a wonderful day today. I sat in a  chair in the facial surgeons office and puckered my butt hole as he injected 4 long syringes of pain killer into my front lower jaw. Then sat there and puckered some more as he pulled my 5 front teeth. Then puckered some more as he stitched me up. Yup I'm ah hurten pup right now, but the pain killers sure give ya a nice warm cozy feeling:) I now gots me one of them Red Neck smiles. Just might move on down to West Virginy tomorrow:)

[red hill]

Sorry to hear that, Roy. My wife went to the dentist today for a temporary crown... She said she'd rather be birthin' a baby than sittin' in one of those offices...
Would you rather be birthin' a baby 'bout right now?

[DVSHUNTER]

That sucks ole man.  Feel for you. Sire am glad I got god teeth. Honestly I was surprised at your age that you didn't already have a set of wooden teeth.    

[bigbob2]

Hope you recover ok Royboy. Them there dentists are people I try to keep well away from

[halfseminole]

I can't say anything.  I don't have a one left after I got sick with a necrotizing infection.  You'll feel better soon.  Mouth heals fast, it really does.

I pulled a package out of the mailbox today containing a very, very large file.  Thought for a second it had been sent to an inmate, checked the packaging, no, it was mine!  I have my very own farrier's rasp, and what a short work it made of truing up the surface on the riser I'm gluing onto this first bow!  Hopefully tomorrow I should have some pics of rasp, bow, and riser, seeing as it's finally starting to look bow-shaped and not stick-shaped.  

Harvested the riser wood myself from a water oak limb I just took down, had spalted on the tree.  Beautiful figuring, split with my electric chainsaw and rasped down flat.  When I work it into a handle shape, the figuring should be extreme, if the split is anything to judge by.  Thank you razorback, I didn't remove any pieces of finger this evening at least!