I used to try talking myself into commissioning Ed Scott to create an art piece that served as a bow. I loved every opportunity I had to talk with him. That would be a dream bow.
One of Dean's Firestyx would be a dream bow. For many reasons. Like many, I miss him.
Randy 'Crittergetter' Madden of Primal Tech made me a dream bow. It is a two piece, fire-breather, but extremely quiet, longbow. My very first new or custom stick. I have the honor and pleasure of calling Randy a friend and hunting partner. He and I are working on designing my next dream bow, a three piece with both longbow and recurve limbs.
John Scifres crafted my first dream bow for my very first elk hunt. It is a stunningly beautiful osage selfbow that still shoots as well today as it did when he made it nearly 18 years ago. It is the only bow I've ever really named and call it Ittai - look it up. Of all my earthly possessions, this is the one I cherish the most. John has been a friend, a brother, a hunting partner, an advisor and a rock in times of need.
Another dream bow was gifted to me by Mickey Lotz. It is a maple board bow, backed with Cooter Skin and stained osage yellow. Ferret named it Anomaly. I call it Fauxsage. Mickey and Diane were like camp parents to my sons during the years I was able to drag them to various rendezvous' and gatherings. Their friendship is priceless.
I'm slowly...very slowly...working on a dream bow of my own making. TIMO handed me a stave of osage, from what he called The Century Tree, back in '03 at MoJam. Tim, Mickey and John all three advised and got me finally started on whittling it down at the 20th annual MoJam. My plan is to get it to be a functional, curved tip rocket launcher.
The Trad Life has been responsible for a lot of great dreams.
Topic: What's your dream bow? (Read 5815 times)
