2025 Junior Bow Trade

[Mafort]

summer has been messing me up! double ear infection that lead to my popping the tympanic membrane in both ears due to pressure. paramedic school has me on lock pretting much from wake up to knock out and mix that with the kentucky heat wave.

[Aaron1726]

Bumping this one back up.

July has been rough here, not much progress on anything,  lots of life stuff in the way....

But...  I should be getting back in the shop soon to get mine finished up.  Still needs some heat and final tiller so hopefully that will go smoothly....

Hope everyone else is doing good with their builds, I'm excited to see them all.

[Selfbowman]

You will find time for what is important to you. But ya life can get confusing.

[Wallski]

Great to hear there’s still movement out there, I’ve been out of state for a while, and will be back home in two weeks, to finish up my bow, let’s hope it doesn’t break.

What is the ship date for our bow exchange?

[stuckinthemud]

I've been thinking of two ways around that.  I reckon on mid September, or, earlier if everyone finishes up beforehand.  If it's ok with everyone, can we aim at being done September 15th?  I know some are dealing with stuff outside of archery, so chime in with what you think/need.

[Wallski]

I can have my bow ready to ship by then.

[Aaron1726]

I'll do my best to hit that date.  Sometimes a deadline is all you need, lol... 

I got some heat on mine today and straightened it out quite a bit.  It had some twist and deflex, so tried to counter twist and add a little reflex.  Gonna let it sit a day or so and then tiller away.  I also got some rawhide coming, may or may not back it with that, just see how it goes I guess.

[paulc]

Life has definitely gotten in my way...I hope to get back to bow building in August. Y'all don't wait on me for sure!  Paul

[Aaron1726]

Got the rawhide glued on today.  Glued it with TB3 and then put a thin piece of foam on top and wrapped the whole thing in athletic wrap.  I used the foam so that it would hopefully press the rawhide more evenly and avoid the wrap marks of the wrap.  Anyway, looks like a mummy at the moment.  Next pics will hopefully be of wood bending

[Wallski]

I’m getting close to completion but, I hope nothing happens until it’s done.   I Shot this bow 50 times and it didn’t break, so I’m feeling pretty good.   Never built one this short, so I have it on a form and prepped for sinew, because I don’t want it break, never get invited back.

[Aaron1726]

Lookin good Steve!