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I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« on: June 04, 2015, 10:55:00 PM »
I gotta get back in the shop.  

I offered up a longbow built to someone's specs on the St. Judes Auction #1.  It closed tonight and the winning bidder was Caleb Monroe who's winning bid was $350 for a bow from this "hobbyist" bowyer.  I'm honored he thought so highly of my work and it feels good my work will be going to support a great cause.

Caleb wants a Hill Style bow with brown glass and we're still discussing riser woods.  I'll definitely do my best on this build.  The pressure's on and Caleb deserves a nice bow for his generosity.

I'll post pics as it progresses.
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2015, 11:00:00 PM »
Good on you John!
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2015, 11:30:00 PM »
Way to go John! I'm sure he will be happy- looking forward to seeing your build.
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2015, 11:37:00 PM »
Congrats to you both, and a big thank you for the kids!
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2015, 01:15:00 AM »
Show us some pics as you progress - Always love to see a bow come together! Especially for such a great cause...
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2015, 07:35:00 PM »
Looking forward to seeing the build. Very generous of both of you.
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2015, 08:41:00 PM »
I've already communicated with Caleb about what he wants.  It will be brown glass with a curly maple riser dyed brown.  Curly maple is at the top of my list for woods I like to work with.  And I have plenty of curly maple and brown glass in case I screw up and need to start over  ;)
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2015, 06:26:00 PM »
He's a big boy so ya'll will want to keep him happy... ;)    
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2015, 07:16:00 PM »
Paul - That's what I gathered from him.  It will be a 70" bow and I'll try to hit his draw weight at 31"     :scared:      :scared:
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2015, 05:00:00 PM »
I got started on the bow this weekend.  Here's a few pics in progress.

Right off the form - There's a bow somewhere in that mess of glue, plastic, and tape.
 

Cleaned up a bit.
 

Shaped and adding overlays.
 

On the tiller stick.  I did have to do some tiller adjustments to get the limbs bending evenly, but not too much.  These straight glass laminated bows are about as easy as it gets as far as tillering.
 

Figured out which end was up and then cut the shelf.
 
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2015, 07:02:00 PM »
Great job John, looks like you found some nice maple there!
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« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2015, 10:05:00 PM »
Looking good John! That maple is really going to pop!
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2015, 11:25:00 PM »
Looks great John. It amazes me how quickly this came together. Can't wait to see it without tape.
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2015, 05:25:00 AM »
Looks like another fine bow from the Sweka stable!   :thumbsup:
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« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2015, 11:31:00 AM »
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2015, 09:24:00 PM »
I got things pretty well rough shaped.

Slight dished grip.
 

The beginning of feathering out the riser overlays
 

And nice narrow limb tips
 

Still lots more work to do, but it's coming along.
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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2015, 10:23:00 PM »
Looking Good!!
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2015, 02:58:00 PM »
It looks like it's coming along nicely.   :clapper:    :clapper:
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« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2015, 11:29:00 AM »
Lookin great John!
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Re: I gotta build a bow - St. Judes Auction - Finished pics!
« Reply #19 on: June 21, 2015, 08:55:00 PM »
I'm done sanding everything and tonight I applied some walnut stain to the riser and the edges of the limbs.

We often get all exited about fancy exotic woods, but good ol' domestic curly maple is still at the top of my list for pretty woods.  And this is just stained - no finish on it yet.
 

It also looks pretty sweet next to one of my flintlocks in the the gun cabinet.
 
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