2014 Annual Bow Swap

[Echatham]

Roy i was on yer thumpin list half a dozen times last year.... nothin ever happened to me.  i aint skeered.

[goobersan]

Great work fellas !!  Love the wood and skins
Maybe we should all build the old man some Purdy bows to decorate his shop with. Might be good to have some color for that pretty lady of his to enjoy.    

[Roy from Pa]

But I'm retired now and I can travel:)

[Echatham]

Well then im buiding a bunker.

[LittleBen]

Cool Ed. Red Oak?

Only thing that would concern me is if there are any nail holes through the back, filling with a dowel will not bring the strength back. It would be best to back it if you have a nail hole that needs filling all the way through the bow to the back. A dowel filled hole on the belly is no big deal.


First thing I'd do is run them through a planer or jointer and see what the grain looks liek and if it's straight enough for a bow.

[halfseminole]

It does look like red oak, as opposed to some very clearly black walnut elsewhere in the structure.  Looks like I'm back on the hunt.

Thanks for the note about the nail holes.  Glad to know before I start building.  Back to square one.

[ranger 3]

Thanks guys, about 6 or 7 more coats and a nice handle wrap and rest and it's on way to ****,
You know D it is RH or LH right now.

[goobersan]

Be nice to have a bow with wood that old Ed. Be funny if it went to Roy, probably born the same century      
Real nice find !

[Dmaxshawn]

Good looking wood bows

[halfseminole]

Yeah, but a red oak bow for the swap?  After all the times we tell beginners not to use red oak unless they have to?  I'd have to rawhide back it, and search through my wood to find a suitable riser wood for it.  I'm about fed up to the point that I'm just gonna buy a stave of hickory.  

Either that or I get started bending up some PVC...

[Roy from Pa]

Ah Ed, not you too? LOL

[cunruhshoot]

Awesome bows Ranger 3 and Pat. Love the self bow or should i say i would love to love one...

[canopyboy]

Originally posted by canopyboy:
 

Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
Well any hunting stories?

Yes, several.

     [/b]

Ok Roybert, I started my hunting story.  It's been a crazy week.  The first installment is in the Hill Hog Hunt thread:

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=128184&p=18#000263

[Roy from Pa]

Cool story..

[KellyG]

Halfseminole I would get it cleaned up first and just see what it really is. Heck that old of wood you never know what it will do. Red oak of that error is not the same as today. Heck might be chestnut or old pine for all I know though.

[canopyboy]

Rest of the story posted now too.

[Dmaxshawn]

Got my swap bow put together and trapped.  117@28

 

[Roy from Pa]

Sweet:)

[halfseminole]

It's 100% red oak.  Open pores, no tyloses, extremely evident radiata.  It's 100% seasoned and ready to go-shoot, it was well seasoned when WWI broke out.  Heaviest oak I've ever seen-weighs like live oak.

Just cut down a hackberry, but I'm gonna have to enlist help in cutting it to size and hauling it to the house. Only one of its kind I've seen all day.  However, as I have no tools to deal with a stave like that, it'll have to go to the wood room to season.

So I'm torn-ancient red oak or buy a hickory stave?  

Seriously, PVC would be easier.  I have lots, and I can hit 60 pounds with it no problem.  Dress it up in birch bark and leather, nobody would know it from a horse bow.

[Echatham]

Ed would ya really have to buy a hickory stave?  I know there's lots of it in Jasper.