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knightc71:
DanaM was kind enough to send me this stave.  It is a hard maple stave.  This will be my first attempt at building a bow.  I will have the help of my husband knightd.  (Maybe he can teach me a thing or two about building a beautiful bow!!)  It may take me awhile to get this done, so please bear with me in this long process!!!  I hope that I can get all of this done in a timely manner.  If not, please be patient with me!!  Any and all advice or pointers will be greatly appreciated.  Am I the only wife on this site that is willing to try this?? ???  (Sorry guys, but I would really like to see some of the wives join you in the MAN CAVE!!!!! ;D ;D :P :P :P)

sailordad:
i think that is great that you are going to make you own bow 8)

take your time,patience is one of the bowyers(now your one of us)greatest tools.
heck i'm still working on my first selfbow.ive been doing this a year,have made a few bows. my first selfbow however never got finished due to
technical difficulties,that back popped.now i am trying to finish my first bow.

so dont feel bad no matter how long it takes.


if we let our wives into our man caves,it would no longer be a man cave.

DanaM:
Looks like a good design to me Cora, Take your time and I'm willing to bet that you make a fine bow :)

I agree more ladies involved in our addiction would be great, would be easier on
the eyes then seeing pictures of all us fugly old rednecks too :D Not only that think of how nice it would be if your
wife was addicted then she wouldn't mind dead critters in the fridge, tanning hides in the tub, someone to help split those logs,
applying sinew on the dinner table, picking up road kill and wood shavings everywhere throughout the house heck you could probably
even convince her that a tarpaper shack in the woods was a dream house ;D

madcrow:
I knew this would happen, I just knew it.  When I saw the boo arrows that you made, I knew you had been bit.  It only gets worse.  Won't be long til you and David wil be fighting over the hide glue.  If you could get all the kids in on it, you could have you own rendezvous going.  So far my son is the only other one to be bit by the bug, my wife and daughter are not the least bit interested.

sailordad:
my wife will shoot em,but not make em.

ITS MY MAN CAVE,MINE I TELL YA,ALL MINE  ;D

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