making own bow
12-02-2010, 04:27 AM
#2
Guest
Posts: n/a
I make em. I like selfbows mainly.
Best place to go for this is www.primitivearcher.com and go to the forums. Second is www.tradgang.com and go to the bowyers bench section.
I will post some later. burniegoeasy is the master on here.
Best place to go for this is www.primitivearcher.com and go to the forums. Second is www.tradgang.com and go to the bowyers bench section.
I will post some later. burniegoeasy is the master on here.
12-02-2010, 05:22 AM
#3
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Byhalia, MS
Posts: 25
http://home.comcast.net/~dcm4/site/?/photos
There are a bunch of pics here but since my interest has waned over they years it has also piled up with other stuff.
There are a bunch of pics here but since my interest has waned over they years it has also piled up with other stuff.
12-02-2010, 05:23 AM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
Heres a few pics of some of my bows. Dont quite have pics of all of them. I really enjoy making and hunting with my own bows. All my bows, for the last few years have all been all organic. Selfbows and wood lam bows. I have not made a glass lam bow in years.
Ipe, Osage, bamboo quad lam. Made a couple of these.
Osage bamboo and walnut
walnut, bamboo, and curly maple
Ipe, osage, walnut
Ipe and bamboo with cocabola
walnut, osage, and bamboo
Cherry, maple and hickory
walnut and bamboo
A mess of kids bows. Made from a all kinds of wood.
Mesquite and bamboo in the works.
Ipe, Osage, bamboo quad lam. Made a couple of these.
Osage bamboo and walnut
walnut, bamboo, and curly maple
Ipe, osage, walnut
Ipe and bamboo with cocabola
walnut, osage, and bamboo
Cherry, maple and hickory
walnut and bamboo
A mess of kids bows. Made from a all kinds of wood.
Mesquite and bamboo in the works.
Last edited by burniegoeasily; 12-09-2010 at 09:08 AM.
12-02-2010, 06:04 AM
#6
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Byhalia, MS
Posts: 25
Me too. I been draggin' it down from the attic of my shop to cut up for firewood. I cut and hauled some severly knarly stuff back in the day. While it makes interesting bows, it does tax one's patience. Anymore I'm so little involved I have all the bows I can make already reduced to floor tiller, or staves I've traded for I need to use.
12-02-2010, 08:01 AM
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
Me too. I been draggin' it down from the attic of my shop to cut up for firewood. I cut and hauled some severly knarly stuff back in the day. While it makes interesting bows, it does tax one's patience. Anymore I'm so little involved I have all the bows I can make already reduced to floor tiller, or staves I've traded for I need to use.
I know what you are talking about. I started a real knotty stave last year. I work a little then put it up for a while. I like a good character bow, but tend to work them slow. It try’s the patience chasseing rings around a bunch of knots. This stave I’m working has about 12 knots. It looks like a kid with real bad acne. I also have two hackberry staves going that are real snaky and a few ipe lam bows that are at floor tiller. I just wish I had more time to finish up a few of them.
