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Hickory Backed Cherry Longbow Follies; Episode 2
duffontap:
My personal secret to good tiller is spending two years per bow. Well, practically.
J. D. Duff
Minuteman:
Hey thanks guys! ;) I sure do appreciate the support . I went out to the garage this mornin' before work and made sure I had my last piece of cherry and a suitable back in the drying box and fiddled with that bow some more. Strung it up and half drew it a few times. Checked out the limbs again. They didn't look as bad as I'd remembered . Exercised them a little more and got it back gradually to my cheek. I'd had it to 28 last night on the tree. About oh say the 3rd time it exploded. Pretty dramatic really. It literally threw my bow hand open . It split all the way from about 6 inches down from the upper limb tip to well below the handle. Guess I let go of the string as I flinched away cuz I got a string welt on the side of my thumb from it. There had been a mild hinge just above where it ended up breaking. Think it was still a little stiff there, or the backing failed I haven't really looked at it yet.
I appreciate the offer Mims but I can't make Mojam this year. :( I got an offer to hunt antelope in Montana come September and Ima goin'! Thats what this bow was for .Great advice too by the way . I think I need to paint the word SLOW ! above my tillerin tree or something.
But yeah I've got 400 pounds of osage setting in a rack in the garage. I KNOW I can make a bow out of osage. I've never had an osage bow fail on me. Well ,not a straight limbed un messed with selfbow any way. Broke a few limbs learnin to heat bend. But yeah I've always been into the alternate bow woods. I got a barn half full of ash. I cut down so much ash the first year I was startin out youda thought I went ash crazy. Never have built but a coupla good ash bows .Did learn alot in the process of turnin them into kindling though.
The other reason I'm switchin to laminated bows is they aren't as hard on you physically. My elbow had been givin me alot of trouble when I started my first HBC and not having to draw knive an osage stave to a growth ring was a major plus. I 'm pretty good at taking my time I'm just not any good at keeping that pace. It took me prolly 12 hours of work to get that bow where it was when it broke. I had been takin my time up to that point I went to the shop and wasn't in the right frame of mind to do it but did it anyway. I was tired and sore and shoulda left it til tomorrow. My fault, I blew it, but ya'll already knew that ;D
It sure was pretty before I tillered it!
Thanks for the advice, Justin. JD wasn't that the one with Chris Farley? Did you see the one when he and Patrick Swayze were trying out for the chippendale dancers? Man, I peed my pants!
Thanks again guys for all the support and I'll do my best to wrangle some pic postin lessons out of my wife and I'll start a new post for the next one with some pics .
Hillbilly:
Yeah, I figured out the hard way a long time ago that if I'm not really in the mood to work on a bow, I'd better leave it alone that day. I ruined a few that would have made good ones by working on them when I was in the wrong frame of mind.
Marc St Louis:
Actually Chris I have had some BC bows do that to me to so don't feel bad. It makes a good bow but can be a pain sometimes
duffontap:
Both of those skits were classics. Why did Farley have to die?
J. D. Duff
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