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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Tim M on March 11, 2019, 06:44:12 pm

Title: My first bow
Post by: Tim M on March 11, 2019, 06:44:12 pm

Trying to post, but cannot see the weird letters, and cannot her them either.

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Tim M on March 11, 2019, 06:54:51 pm

Got it to work on Chrome. Do I have to do a verification every time I want to post? That will slow me down...

Anyway, my first post. I always loved archery. Back in the 80s I used to shoot a compound, but then I went overseas and basically gave it up (except for teaching a Boy Scout merit badge course for my son's troop in Bangkok). Now I'm back, and the wealth of online videos got me interested. Luckily, I also have a background busting logs and riving clapboard (also back in the late 80s), so I'm a fair hand with an axe and drawknife.

So I cut and split some osage and made most of a bow. After initial tillering, I braced the bow, then, unthinkingly, and showing off to my wife, I pulled it down to where I hd pulled it with the (very loose) tillering string, and broke it. Oh well...

I need practice, so for my next effort I took a small scrap and used it to make a kids bow for my niece. It pulls about 13.5 pounds. Here are a couple pictures.

Now I'm working on a 74 inch warbow. I roughed it to the average dimensions of a Mary Rose bow, and it is quite stout!. I'll be working it down from there a lot, but figured that would be a fun place to start

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: bjrogg on March 11, 2019, 07:32:14 pm

Welcome to PA Tim. You won't have to keep doing the verification thing. It goes away after a few post. They do that to keep the spammers off.
Congratulations on your first bow. Nothing like letting that first arrow fly. I hope you keep building and improving them.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Sidewinder on March 11, 2019, 07:43:51 pm

Welcome to the site. Good job on that kids bow. Keep em coming. I like the way you go from one extreme to another. Should be an interesting journey.

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Deerhunter21 on March 11, 2019, 08:35:19 pm

Welcome to PA! People here are very kind and have lots of experience! Happy bow making!

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: tattoo dave on March 12, 2019, 03:55:16 am

Welcome to PA. That’s a nice looking bow! Good job on your first!

Tattoo Dave

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Pappy on March 12, 2019, 05:02:11 am

Welcome, looks like a nice job on a kids bow, sometimes they are tougher than a adult bow at least for me they are. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: ohma2 on March 12, 2019, 08:55:47 am

Welcome  and nice little bow.

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Tim M on March 12, 2019, 10:53:35 am

Thank you all for the kind remarks and encouragement. I'm well into my longbow, and enjoying that, but think I should let it dry a while before tillering. I still have a few of the osage staves to de-bark, and I need to make a string for the kid's bow, so perhaps I'll do that first. I guess I can also rough out another flat bow. I broke th efirst one I tried, but learned a lot.

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Hawkdancer on March 12, 2019, 11:09:05 am

Welcome aboard, Tim!  These folks have a wealth of knowledge to share and do so willingly.  You can also get some free humor now and then!
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 12, 2019, 03:33:32 pm

Welcome! Nicely done on that bow. Jawge

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: SLIMBOB on March 12, 2019, 03:45:15 pm

Nice shape!

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: Loganic on March 13, 2019, 04:33:20 pm

I like the bow! Very nice for a kid's one. For 13# I would have just found a stick in the woods and put a string on it, but that's a really nice looking piece.

I'm looking forward to seeing your warbow! Godspeed :BB

Title: Re: My first bow
Post by: backtowood B2W on March 15, 2019, 03:36:29 am

nice little bow!
i´m stunned with the newbie´s lately
welcome
B2W