Main Discussion Area > Bows
Glass: a few follies
DCM:
George,
Man you ain't see nothing. As far as flame fests goes this was.... well about like a sparker. I consider you a friend and mentor George. Ain't no tellin the number of wanderers you've brung to the fold.
Wood bowyery ain't about a bow, it's a lifestyle. That's why I hate, although that's too strong a word, comparing a self bow to a glass bow, in terms of cast or whatever. It's like saying Micheal Jordan is a really fast runner. It misses the whole point. The glass bow has it's merits, and master's certainly have had their hand in it. But a glass bow is dead. A wooden bow is alive in every since, moody like a women, high maintanence, but loyal and warm like a dawg. Ideally it enjoys an immortality in memories of the bowyer. I honestly wonder what's become of some of my babies. Any of you nare do wells that's got one let me know, even if they've run off with a cousin or something unsavory like that.
George Tsoukalas:
Thanks, David. This is a lifestyle. Watching the Sox and fletching arrows. Gotta get ready for a weekend shoot. Ole Jawge needs plenty of arrows. :) Jawge
Pappy:
Ya Gary gets all upset about calling a boo backed bow a selfbow,It was a article in PA.hunting
hogs in Tennessee that got him tore up ,the time before was Torgus on same length limbs,he gets intense about that stuff,I tell him to take a deep breath. ;D
Pappy
tom sawyer:
Man I wish I'd got him to tell me his thoughts on Dean's article. Those two are both pretty adamant about their points of view. I've always held Gary's view of same-length limbs, but I think I'm starting to get why a shorter lower limb might be an advantage. Certainly both work just fine though, as a practical matter. And its a luxury to be abel to choose your bottom limb when the bow is nearly finished.
Pappy:
You really didn't want to get him started on that one,it wasn't that he doesn't think it is OK to do a longer upper limb it was that Dean said it wasn't OK to do same length.He ranted at LBL last winter for 2 days after I showed him that article and then went home and wrote his own.Dean's
remarks about taking the easy way out got him going for sure.
Pappy
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version