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What do you do with your old bows?
superdav95:
--- Quote from: sleek on February 19, 2023, 09:53:08 am ---I keep them to experiment with later. Maybe to try out a different way of hear treat, or learn how to sinew back, try the effects of different recurve radius and lengths. Old bows are valuable for learning on. Especially if you have a chronograph and speed test every change you make.
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Congrats Airkah. That’s great news. I just recently found out I’m gonna be a grandpa. Fun times ahead. I do much the same as sleek here. I like to experiment and test out things also. They also show a progression of learning too.
sleek:
--- Quote from: airkah on February 22, 2023, 11:55:33 pm ---Yep my baby! Thank you all so much! I'll probably do a combination ofalot of this and keep way too many, some for me to shoot and others to experiment or rework into kids bows or whatever. I really don't like giving bows away unless its my best work.
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Got any really wide ones?
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: airkah on February 18, 2023, 07:32:56 pm ---So the room in my house I keep all of my bows in is about to become a baby's room here in a few months. I have some bows that I love that I'll probably hang on a bow rack in my office. But I don't know what to do with the others - mostly early bows that I don't really want to display. So I'm looking for ideas - what do you all do with old bad/mediocre bows?
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I was going to suggest you keep some bows in the baby's room especially as your baby gets older, give he/she something to look at. Also bracing some bows every once in awhile as a change, for visual affects
WhistlingBadger:
Congratulations on the upcoming bambino! That's great news. If I have a bow that I'm never going to shoot again (it takes me a while to admit this sometimes, but I usually know, deep down), I'll try to find a new home for it. If it isn't good enough to give away, I chop it up and burn it in the chiminea. My goal is to have one "near perfect" flat bow for elk hunting, a sinewed shorty for hunting antelope out of a blind, and my fiberglass recurve for blasting carp.
I just don't have the storage space for much more than that, and even if I did, I'm a bit of a minimalist at heart and like to keep things simple. Hey, now that I mention it, that's the same reason I shoot wooden bows!
wizardgoat:
Congrats on the baby, we have 2 little ones and it’s the best.
My rack has really lightened up over the years. There’s around 25 bows on it but 15 or so are built by others. If the bow is ok, just an overbuilt early work, I like to rework them and make them new again.
Especially for friends or gift bows. No more room for old wall hangers with iffy knots or bandaids, they get torched.
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