2013 Annual Bow Swap

[inksoup]

jbluefeather, what do you think about bull tooth on the bow?  

sticks, can you please update me about the situation with PM. thanks.

[mjwhitby]

All this waiting is killing me!  

[KellyG]

Ok mine is fished I will ship her on Friday and post pics tomorrow. It really thumps an arrow harder then any bow I have made.

Ended up with a toasted belly re-flex d-flex hackberry with black snake skins. I got the leather on the handle this evening and shot her for about an hour and left her strung for about an hour more. Looks good. I am happy with it. I hope ******* is too.

Red hill as long as you dont lose it in your sock draw we all will be happy.

[goobersan]

me too, MJ. I'm sure they will all be worth the wait, I just hope mine shows up before I leave town.      

[kevin_h]

The wait is getting to me as well...seeing all the unbelievable handiwork be shipped...
Kevin

[canopyboy]

Originally posted by KellyG:
Red hill as long as you dont lose it in your sock draw we all will be happy.

   

[KellyG]

Ok here is some pics of the bow I am shipping out tomorrow.
The skin is one snake and I am amazed at the difference in the pattern.


 

 

Side profile

 

A bit shinny I just

 

Nice and toasty limbs

 


 

Well she really thumps and arrow let me tell you. I will let *************************** post pics of the money shot. I warn you she looks flat but before I put in the re-flex d-flex in there she had a nice round draw. This is my first R/D.

[goobersan]

Looks awesome Kelly !!  Great job !

[Dan Landis]

Looks good Kelly, you did a good job on toasting, mine always seem to come out spotty for some reason.

[KellyG]

Dan that is only my second toasting but I had DVS there to watch over me. I did learn that if your caul has a back lip the heat can really reflect of it and get your back. Luckily it was mostly glue that got it.

But thanks

[Troy D. Breeding]

Well, I can now say that I did receive my trade bow. Even though it's been here a few days I had no way of posting that it arrived. My computer gave up it's ghost and I finally had found time today to go buy a new one.

I must say Walt did one heck of a job. It's one of the sweetest looking one piece bows I've had in a long time.

Now just to find time to shoot it alittle. My furniture building has taken way too much of my time. Hopefully I'll be able to put a few arrows thru it tomarrow.

I'll try to post a few pics as well over the weekend.

Thanks Again Walt!!!

Troy

[bigbob2]

Nice bow Kelly!

[canopyboy]

Nice bow Kelly.  Congrats Troy!

[KellyG]

Congrats Troy that brings us up to over 61% done. Mine is wrapped and ready to ship. I will take it down in a bit to the post office. I have had a couple of folks give me tracking numbers so I verified several were received even though some had not posted saying they received.

Slow but we are getting there in the end.

[k-hat]

Like that r/d profile Kelly!

So y'all can MARK ME AS SHIPPED!!  Dropped her off this morning and somebody should have a long white tube on the porch come Monday or Tuesday   :D

Glad to be done with that!

Kelly I'll pm you the tracking #

[canopyboy]

Kevin - isn't that the greatest feeling?

I think the grace period is about to end if I calculated right.  I know I needed it again this year.

[Troy D. Breeding]

Said the heck with all work today and decided it was time to put some arrows thru the new bow.

I must say I'm very happy. It cast my 800gr arrows with some great authority.

Switched the endless loop string Walt sent with the bow to a flemish twist, added a set of strings puffs and crimped on a string nock.

At first I thought I was going to need different arrows. The ones I normally shoot seemed a bit weak in spine. However, adding another piece of Velcro to the sight window solved all the flight problems.

Approx. 100 arrows thru it today and I can tell everyone "my fingers are sore".  Guess I can expect that since I havn't shot in over three weeks.

Thanks Again Walt!!!

Troy

[KellyG]

Mine went out today so Watch your porches if you have not gotten one.

[k-hat]

Yes sir Canopy!  Now i gotta finish my PA trade bow      

Maybe there's a Kelly G r/d bow headed my way!

[KellyG]

I am in the same boat Kevin. That R/D was my third bow this year. For theses swaps. I had one that was for this one. It is a bow but only pulling about30#s at 28".

I also had a shorty D bow pulling to about 25 before it decided it was not going to be a bow. I almost had the handle bending but no luck. Then the hack berry first time using hackberry and the first R/D. Now I am working on an American Long bow for the P/A swap.

I really hope to have it tillered out this weekend. IF so it will be my fastest tillering job to date by far. But I really plan on using the next 3 days. with lots of breaks so I am not rushing it.

And Kevin you have a 4% chance it is headed your way! Just like all the others not received yet.