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Author Topic: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)  (Read 1110 times)

Offline ber643

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"Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« on: June 22, 2007, 07:47:00 AM »
I am going to show you Mannny's "Hula Girl" in action in her new home in NC. I've had her about a week and a half but she needed to acclimate (taking sunbaths in our climate). I also made a purty white, black, and yellow Flemish Twist string, with fur strips for her. I have grown to love her even more during this time of just handling her. Yesterday I served and put nocks on the string and it was time for our first shooting foray together. I'll tell you about that later. Please remember I was nervous as a teenager on a first date and we were just getting used to each other. I will post more pics latter but here are a few teasers this morning.

From Hawaii to NC:

 

Contemplation:

 

Pick A Spot:

 

Full Draw1:

 

Brace After Release:

 

See ya's later with some more pics.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2007, 07:51:00 AM »
That man can make a bow!

Good on you Bernie!!!
now where's your grass skirt?LOL!!<><
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2007, 08:09:00 AM »
Yeah Frank, I was afraid there were going to be pictures of Bernie in a grass skirt in here!    :scared:

Nice bow Bernie, looks like Manny did another stellar job.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2007, 08:11:00 AM »
Nice looking bow Bernie....nice to see you in jeans again   :D
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2007, 08:11:00 AM »
Neat bow...good form...a winning combo   :thumbsup:
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2007, 08:13:00 AM »
Y'all got that right! (Skirts - of any kind - are a once a half century thing - LOL)
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2007, 08:33:00 AM »
nice looking bow, but i think a grass skirt with a few clumps of those beautiful blue hydrangeas added to the mix would really be something.     :scared:
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2007, 08:36:00 AM »
:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:  

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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2007, 08:57:00 AM »
Bernie After taking a lQQk at your last pictures I was alil nervous opening up this post. Thought I'd see a man wearing a grass skirt shooting a bow.
But since we all know your a man's man, glad I did. Great lQQking bow. It's got the lines of the Alaskan longbow I like. Good luck.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2007, 09:43:00 AM »
It is my true pleasure to add to Manny's earlier thread on this bow. (The bow means a great deal to me, as do you guys opinions of it, and of friend Manny.) (No grass, of any kind, either!  :D  )

Some detail pics of this fine Guava bow from Manny:

Hanging:

 

 

Zebrawood Tip Overlay(s):

 

Natural Hemp Handle Wrap (& Flemish Twist String by Bernie):

 
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2007, 09:51:00 AM »
Full Draw 6:

 

Brace After Release 3:

 

15 Yard Results:

 

As I said, First time out. I find I have to Cant well, and still pick a spot well to the right, to hit where I would like to, with pretty much all of my wood primitive/lam/self bows. Maybe I'll work around that some day    :rolleyes:    . The arrows you see with the "tracers" on them are Ramin dowel shafts (in light spine) that I made. The three with Fl green nocks and feathers are alum (shhhh - just to "see how she liked them"). AND the one right smack in the center, with the tracer, is a Cane arrow in light spine I made - it flew like a dart. (I gotta make some more light spined Canes - LOL)

Let me say my "go-to-bow" is a Adcock ACS and it is a fast little rascal that I shoot fairly well (when I pay attention    ;)     ) so I have an idea of fast, smooth, and hard hitting. That having been said, this "Hula Girl", my Guava Bow from Manny, is a fast spitting , smooth shooting, hit like a veritable Frieght Train, full of authority bow - and I love shooting it, as well as love it period. Too bad everybody couldn't shoot it (or one like it.) Thanks for looking. Maybe some more pics from our first outing, later, if you want.    :)
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2007, 01:26:00 PM »
Very, very nice Bernie!! Congrats on being the owner of a Manny-masterpiece!!
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2007, 01:37:00 PM »
You need to mount a bobble-head Hula Girl on the riser like a stabilizer and take a few pics. Cool bow for a cool customer.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2007, 05:42:00 PM »
LOL - Think I'll pass on that one - though I remember those on a lot of Dashboards back in the fifties, or was it forties -   :confused:
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2007, 05:53:00 PM »
Very cool, Bernie!  And I have to say, that I love the bow's name.  It definately shows personality!

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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2007, 06:03:00 PM »
Bernie, you should add a little grass skirt at the bottom of the handle wrap.    :D
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2007, 08:26:00 PM »
They used to use feathers before the grass started growing on the Volcanic rock there - maybe I'll put one of my feather wind indicators on her .  :archer:  

Thanks, Claudia, I really think the name  fits her, now that I've had her here awhile.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2007, 08:48:00 PM »
Looking good Bernie. I am getting kind of old and "crooked" perhaps I should get me such a bow.  Bue--.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2007, 10:19:00 PM »
LOL - Maybe, Bue, I've got two (Osage "Sneaky Snake" from Dano and now "Hula Girl" from Manny) and I love them both. It fascinates me how they shoot, being so crooked. Dano also made Osage bows for my two (real young) Great Granddaughters and one of those is snakey in the lower limb also.
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Re: "Hula Girl" Guava Bow (added more pics)
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2007, 12:48:00 AM »
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...(Skirts - of any kind - are a once a half century thing - LOL)
Glad that's in the closet.   :bigsmyl:  

Sweet lookin' bow.
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