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A board bow for Jawge

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bentstick54:
Very nice bow, and great way to honor George’s memory.

mmattockx:
Beautiful work on the bow and a great tribute. I love the nocks, going to have to try the multiple laminated woods on my next bow.


Mark

Bob Barnes:
too cool... I met Jawge at MoJam and instantly knew he was a great person.  BJ, you might be the only person that I know that can make a board bow into a snaky and whoop-Te-do bow... LOL  Great job and super great idea my friend.  Thanks!
Bob

bjrogg:
Thanks guys.

mmattockx just give it a try. I like to use pretty dense wood. These tips actually have three different woods. I don’t know what they are . I got them in a giveaway on the leatherwall site. There isn’t much left of the third type. I like pretty small tips so it can be hard to keep everything. I have cut them at a angle before to keep all the different woods

Bjrogg

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: Bob Barnes on May 03, 2023, 11:37:51 pm ---too cool... I met Jawge at MoJam and instantly knew he was a great person.  BJ, you might be the only person that I know that can make a board bow into a snaky and whoop-Te-do bow... LOL  Great job and super great idea my friend.  Thanks!
Bob

--- End quote ---


Thanks Bob. I never got to meet George. So many people I would like to meet yet. Hope to cross paths with you sometime too.

I just did what I always do. I looked for the bow and followed the grain.

I can’t seem to find my pictures of splitting this one but I will try to illustrate where in the log this board came from.

My cousin clamped it in his mill and sawed all the boards he could get for himself off one side. Until he was to close to his clamps to saw another pass.

Then I had him flip it over and saw as many for himself as he could from the other side.

I kept the plank in the middle.  I don’t remember exact measurements but the width of the log wide. And approximately 2.5” thick.

You can see in drawing the general orientation of the grain. It really was a pretty nice straight Osage log.

From the plank I made two splits to remove the stave from my board. Then I chased a ring. And then I followed the edge grain to lay out my staves width.

And that is where this snaky wop-T- do board bow came from

Bjrogg

Hope that clear as mud

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