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Glass: a few follies
Pappy:
This is getting good,it reminds me of the Dean Torgus thread. ::)I had the guy from 21st century
long bows at the Classic last year and wanted to shoot the Iron Arrow competion and didn't have a selfbow and had never shot a selfbow so I lent him one of mine and he shot the course with it.When he came back in he told me he had a whole new thought on selfbows,he said he thought they were way below his bows and others that build custom glass bow but that now he knew that wasn't right,the biggest different is you have to take a little more care with them.He was very very surprised and I was very very pleased. :) :)
Pappy
StanM:
I've built both kinds of bows, and seen really nice examples of both glass and selfbows. I think making both kinds of bows is easy. I think making really nice bows of either kind takes an incredible amount of skill.
As others have mentioned, the skill set is different. To me, it's sorta like furniture making. I like making furniture, too. Glass bows would be like making traditional furniture, while selfbows are more like rustic furniture. One of the skills to making a traditional table and set of six chairs is how exactly you can reproduce each chair. It takes a skilled craftsman to turn each leg exactly the same, set the curve of the back exactly the same and make each peice fit flawlessly.
A rustic table and dining chairs, though, is a different animal. The skill is not in its sameness. The skill is in using wood found in nature, through dilligent search, that fits the function for which it is intended. After that, the skill is fitting each peice together so that the chair is as comfortable, or effective, as any traditional piece.
Both are easy to do, neither is easy to do well.
Stan
George Tsoukalas:
David, some things are best left to the imagination.If I wanted to be clearer I would have been.
Due to the magic of copy and paste we don't have to speculate on what you said. Now don't go trying to make me the bad boy.
"Fiberglass, in terms working properties, exceeds wood by a good measure. It's no wonder master craftsmen prefer it for their work." Let me help you extricate yourself from this quandary. Perhaps this is what you meant to say.
"Fiberglass, in terms (of) working properties, exceeds wood by a good measure. It's no wonder(some) master craftsmen prefer it for their work.
Torges, Baker, David Mims, Marc St Louis, Ryan O'Sullivan, Comstock, Pat, Gordon, et al (forgive me if I left anyone out) to my knowledge prefer wood; thus the insertion of "some" seems to work for me. I should have been a politician. :) Jawge
DanaM:
I'd vote for ya Jawge ;) You could start the Primitive Party ;D
I wouldn't mind trying glass somewhere down the road. To me the satisfaction is in making a
functional bow with my own hands. That said I would never pay $500, $1000 or more for a bow.
DanaM
DCM:
George,
"It's no wonder(some) master craftsmen prefer it for their work."
Which distorts the truth to protect a few folks' ignorance or prejudice. If I'd wanted to say that, I would have. In fact, master bowyers who use glass outnumber all wood masters by 20 to 1, at least. But that does not imply, and I did not imply that ALL master craftsmen prefer it for their work as you have suggested. This is where you went astray, and I have to wonder why.
"Don't know where you pulled that one from but I could speculate."
Then you insinuate my idea's aren't my own, as if I were parroting someone elses thoughts, a blind follower. If you want to leave such things to your imagination, please do. But a public forum on the internet is decidedly not your imagination. And I still want to know what you imagine my motivation was, who or what was behind it, now that you've spilled your imagination into the public domain at my expense.
We having fun yet? LOL
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