Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: PEARL DRUMS on February 21, 2012, 09:35:04 pm
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Cleaning up the crap hole you try to build them in! :o I havent done much more than shovel curls out for a year straight and left the rest behind. I have a guest coming over Thursday and thought I'd better get after it. I should have taken before's, but most of you have seen pics of the dump. I hauled out a total of 90 gallons of junk, 35 gallons of dust, bark, shavings and curls. And about 10-12 empty packing containers of various sizes and shapes. Both air filters where plugged so I cleaned them up only to have them plug up again shortly after. Yah, it was dusty in there ;). I also added the metal rack to free up my arrow building desk once again. It has been buried for a long time. I took a pic of the four corners and one in the center showing my now organinzed mini-stash of staves and such on the back wall. Some of you may recognize a few items. Tell me if you do, that may be kind of fun???
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there is something about building bows and being a slob that go hand in hand. don't worry you are not the only one!
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the place looks cleaner than mine.those last two staves look familiar.have fun with it buddy,Steve
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Winner-winner chicken dinner Steve! This could be fun, I may have to give the slower guys a few clues huh?
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I hope the 3rd to the last pic isn't a shot of the wood your using for your Bow Trade recipient >:D LOL
Looks to clean to function in...just had to do the same on this end (having to put our house up for sale or risk loosing it to the bank) and now I want to start another bow but don't know if I have another round of Deep Cleaning in me at this point.
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Thats new form wood Lee. However the bow prepped for sinew with bundles of sinew around it is for *******, so hopefully ******* doesnt get on here and recognize ******'s bow! Maybe I should chop it out of the pic:)
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Just think how messier it would have been if you pealed all of that Indiana osage you hauled back north. Now that you got it all cleaned up, maybe you could actually finish a bow. What's it been, 2, 3 days since you finished the last one ;D
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Lay off Clint! I've been busy cleaning man. Keep up the teasing and your HHB stave gets more and more and more twisted pal...
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I'm just kidding :) Good luck finding a piece of HHB that isn't twisted though ;)
That's a mighty fine collection of bows hanging on that one wall.
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is that what that white wood is?i thought it was hickory.how is that hhb to work with?
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The two hanging bows are hackberry, and the racked bow is ash Steve. The staves against the wall are white ash and hackberry.
Edit: The bow all the way on the left is a little hickory flinger. I built it from an outside piece split off a massive tree, junk basically. Its a 25# bendy and sealed with bee's wax and heat treated. Its fun to plink with in the yard.
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HHB is some good stuff to work with. It makes a really nice bow. In our humidity Steve, I would take HHB over hickory any day.
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i just finished my first hackberry.it is 69" 53@26.i am no pro,but it turned out really well for me so far.first one that i was confidant enough not to back with some sinew.i have one more hackberry stave to play with.the next one is going to be much better.i learned alot on this last one.
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Pearly that shop looks mighty fine. Before Gus came down in October I took a day off from work to clean my barn/shop ;) My wife thought it was funny..
That hat on the wall looks cool.
When I grow up I want to have a shop as neat and tidy as Clint's :laugh:
Cipriano
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You haven't seen my shop. The only thing neat and tidy in there is the floor. I can't stand a messy floor. My workbench usually has about a 1' layer of "stuff" on it.
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I give it three week's till ya can't see the desk or the floor >:D, my wife is allways complaining that she cant get into the freezer, but i got a little tiny garage, Bub
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That's some pretty straight and seasoned looking osage there, Drums!
As difficult as it is to maintain, a clean shop is easier (and safer) to work in. Otherwise, you find yourself asking, "Where did I put my nock file?"
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While my wife doesn't share my desire for bow making and flint knapping, about once a month that wonderful woman comes out to the shop and sweeps up while I put stuff back where it belongs. It makes a huge difference in the way the shop looks. Bless her heart.
George
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That's some pretty straight and seasoned looking osage there, Drums!
Yah! How do you like that fish hook Marty gave me? He handed it to me with a smile and said " Here, see what ya can get from this one drums!".