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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Cooper on January 22, 2009, 07:23:39 pm

Title: Kids Bow
Post by: Cooper on January 22, 2009, 07:23:39 pm: Well, here is the first bow for my almost 4-year-old son.
He insists on it, cause his sister has one too.
She is five years older, but that does not worry him at all ;D

Corvin's bow:
Hickory (board) backed with black silk. Handle and tips are from Tigerwood (Goncalo alves) and maple.

Length NtN 36 1/4'' (92cm)
??lb / xx'' (well, it is light)
Width at Fade Outs 1 3/16'' (30mm)
Width at the tips 23/64'' (9mm)

I hope he will enjoy - and shoot with it.
And I hope you like it too.

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Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: El Destructo on January 22, 2009, 07:40:56 pm: I think it's Great....boy when I was a Kid....the things I could have done with a Bow like that!!!!
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: islandpiper on January 22, 2009, 08:22:16 pm: ElDestructo, when you were a kid the Michigan State Police still had dog teams and cap-lock rifles!!!

You would have had every Eye-talion kid in Ishpeming trying to trade it off you for a bag of fools gold!!

piper
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Jesse on January 22, 2009, 08:27:10 pm: very Nice work. The profile pictures are great also
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: brownhillboy on January 22, 2009, 11:38:36 pm: Great bow! I'm sure he'll love it! :)
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Pat B on January 22, 2009, 11:44:48 pm: Cool bow. What's he gonna get when hes 16? ::) ;D
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Cooper on January 23, 2009, 06:04:50 am: Thank you, folks.

Quote from: Pat B on January 22, 2009, 11:44:48 pm
Cool bow. What's he gonna get when hes 16? ::) ;D
Arghh, I should have thought of that sooner ??? ;D

Quote from: Jesse-S on January 22, 2009, 08:27:10 pm
… The profile pictures are great also
I can't help myself, it's my job ;)
It started with a photo like the one at the bottom, the rest is a little bit photoshop-work …

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Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Pappy on January 23, 2009, 06:30:42 am: Very nice.Wished I had something like that when I was a kid. :)
Pappy
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: OldBow on January 23, 2009, 12:53:58 pm: Very, very nice. Kid's Bow or serious work at woodcraft. Not to mention fine bowery. And really decent pictures. Thanks and this one is a keeper for January Self Bow of the Month.
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: DirtyDan on January 23, 2009, 02:09:12 pm: Outstanding. Beautiful bow and great pictures.

Dan
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Cooper on January 23, 2009, 05:03:18 pm: OldBow, DirtyDan: Again thank you very much for your friendly comments.
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Cooper on January 29, 2009, 11:05:01 am: Hm, I suppose my son is stronger than I thought.
I didn't looked just one moment an he pulled his bow to much - and the lower limb brook.
No "January Self Bow of the Month"-candidate from me this time :-[

Ok, I will try to repair it - and I had already glued the limb (no problem: it was a very long break, about 4'').
Then a backing from linen fabric and a facing with 2mm maple - root for me, that this will work ;)

Although it will be no selfbow again, just another laminated :D
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Pappy on January 29, 2009, 11:28:02 am: Sorry to hear that. :)
Pappy
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: bigcountry on January 29, 2009, 12:33:16 pm: Man, I am really sorry to hear this.

This is one of those posts that you go from really happy to very sad.

I am shocked hickory broke. Wonder if the break was from a board bow design?
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: hawkbow on January 29, 2009, 09:34:03 pm: Two words brother... UN- BELIEVABLE.... great job ... Hawk a/ho
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: Cooper on January 30, 2009, 04:46:55 am: Thanks guys for your sympathy.
It is not the first of my bows that is broken and I am afraid it won't be the last … :D

Quote from: bigcountry on January 29, 2009, 12:33:16 pm
… I am shocked hickory broke. Wonder if the break was from a board bow design?
Yes, it was from a board.
But I think the main problem was, that I heated the limbs too much. They are so thin, that the heat went right through the whole limb and they went to brittle.
The silk-backing, only one layer, was not strong enough to save that.
Title: Re: Kids Bow
Post by: GregB on January 30, 2009, 08:21:51 am: I'm so sorry that bow broke, she was a real beauty! Thank you for telling us what you think the cause was...serves a purpose of learning. :)