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Offline Nim-rod

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #380 on: January 26, 2012, 05:36:00 PM »
Got a box for shipping my trade bow out. Still wondering what to for the last final touches. The strings I left long on the leather handle need to be either cut off of something added to them.
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Offline Mike Mecredy

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #381 on: January 26, 2012, 05:43:00 PM »
Today I got 3 bows finished, and sat around and waited for my smooth-on to get here so I can glue up more.  It's here now, but I have something else I have to do for the rest of the afternoon now!
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #382 on: January 26, 2012, 11:51:00 PM »
Well I guess I've been lucky so far with this bow building thing but to day I destroyed a Mullberry stave that took me the best part of the day to get a clean ring (really small, tight rings)....  Oh well I guess if you do this long enough, stuff happens...  sure was a nice looking stave though   :(

Consoled myself by getting my Osage stave pretty close to a string...
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #383 on: January 27, 2012, 08:30:00 AM »
Sorry to here that ryan. Sometimes bad bows happen to good people.

I worked on cleaning up one of my glue ups last night.

 

 
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Offline SportHunter

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #384 on: January 28, 2012, 10:54:00 PM »
Layed out a hickory board bow as a backup for the tg swap.
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Offline H8nonCubs

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #385 on: January 29, 2012, 12:45:00 AM »
Where to begin. Helped a friend of dvs and i build a form for fiberglass bows.
 
started to shoot one in
 
Added some rasp (protectors) made from spare rivercane
 
tweaked a limb on a possible hbo or bbo
 
 
and took a noce piece of osage down to a single growth ring. Probly finish roughin it out tomorrow
 
 
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Offline DVSHUNTER

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #386 on: January 29, 2012, 12:56:00 PM »
Went stumpin.
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Offline rmorris

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #387 on: January 29, 2012, 02:23:00 PM »
Wanted to make sure that my trade bow was the correct weight so I calibrated my scale hung a know amount of weight and then made sure the scale read that amount.

 
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Offline DVSHUNTER

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #388 on: January 29, 2012, 03:30:00 PM »
My scale is always off. I more or less just guess on everything anyway.
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Online Roy from Pa

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #389 on: January 29, 2012, 03:44:00 PM »
I worked     :mad:  

But I'm off Mon and Tue, Bow Shop here I come.       :archer2:
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #390 on: January 29, 2012, 04:35:00 PM »
DVS I know what you are talking about, I tell people I can make you any weight bow within a 32nd of a pound becaue I will just write to weight they wanted on it and tell them their scale is the wrong one becaue mine is dead on. Hahah
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #391 on: January 29, 2012, 07:06:00 PM »
Peeled three osage staves down to almost one ring. Hafta finish them up tomorrow after school.
Also have some bamboo to experiment on.
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #392 on: January 29, 2012, 07:09:00 PM »
Searched for an osage limb to make a limb bow for myself. Kinda funny look'n!!

 
 
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #393 on: January 29, 2012, 07:22:00 PM »
Came across a small tree and went to work with my small saw.

Never seen so much sap this fer into winter.
 

Nice rings so I was happy..
 

The trunk was long enough to get two logs one 68" and the other was 60"...
 
 

Got'em home, split, sealed, dated the ends and added them to my drying rack..
 
 
 

Nothing like Scrub-Busters haul!
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Offline Stiks-n-Strings

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #394 on: January 29, 2012, 07:39:00 PM »
Joe Your an animal!
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Offline Nim-rod

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #395 on: January 29, 2012, 08:12:00 PM »
Why can't Osage grow in NH???? I WANT TO CUT SOME TOO!
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Offline karrow

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #396 on: January 29, 2012, 09:02:00 PM »
nice looking osage joe those are great rings
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #397 on: January 30, 2012, 06:22:00 AM »
Joe, do you use a saw to run a  kirf down to split?  I have never seen osage split that clean without doing that?
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Offline Art B

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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #398 on: January 30, 2012, 10:14:00 AM »
Always split with wedges Charles, never kerf a log. Well, unless red elm  ;)  ......Art
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Re: What did you do today?
« Reply #399 on: January 30, 2012, 10:29:00 AM »
Gotch you Art.  I never do, but those look just to darn straight not to have.  Or maybe I need to get some splitting lessons....   :bigsmyl:
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