Getting off of the subject of food (which I hate to do), I will be bringing yet another Old Phartt's bow to the class with me. It's an interesting project and I thought perhaps some of you might be interested in getting to know it before you actually meet it.
It will be named "Arrowl Flynn", or possibly just Arrow Flynn, I'm still debating. I'm building it to what I hope will be hunting weight and it will be a circulating bow for the Howard Hill Longbowmen to take turns hunting with. Since it is for them, I'm doing a very thorough (some might say exhaustive) build along on it as I go.
So far, I've shown it starting out as a huge yew plank and some pieces of bamboo flooring and taken the group through the cutting out of billets, resawing into slabs, grinding of lams and cutting shaping of the riser. It should go into the oven this week, probably tomorrow. I'd like to finish it in time to take to the Medical Lake shoot this weekend, but that's probably pushing it. It'll definitely be ready to come to the class and the Pope and Young though.
If you want to meet it early and see it getting born, here's the link:
http://dickwightman.com/archery/bowyering/buildingopabow/buildingopabow.html I know Arrowl is looking forward to meeting some of you guys, because I wont' be able to shoot him much. He'll be too heavy for me.