Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DanaM on December 13, 2007, 12:51:15 pm
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Just wonder what winter projects everyone has planned.
Heres some of mine.
1. Finish my great nieces bow, quiver and arrows, won't make Christmas deadline but better late than never.
2. Make arrows for my niece and her fiances bow I built.
3. Scrape and dry about 20 lbs of backstrap sinew.
4 make a bow for a friend that let me cut bow wood on his property.
5 make arrows for the wife's bow.
6. Make myself a bow ;D As of Christmas day I will be bowless as I'm giving my last good bow to my nephew, its a reward for turning his life around, he starts college in Jan
7. Trade sinew to you guys ;)
8. Make a couple of Knives, quivers and more arrows.
Oh yea make a present for the Christmas Trade, can't forget that.
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1. Make at least one more BBO for my boss, he's making me a fishing rod as a trade. Gotta do a good job on that one.
2. Help a new guy make an osage selfbow.
3. Make some quivers out of several tanned pelts I have, got two red fox, two coyote, and a badger.
4. Tan a gray fox (in the freezer) and a bobcat pelt (if the guy remembers to save me the bobcat).
5. Work up several osage staves from the log I bought, they are laying under 2" of ice on the driveway at the moment.
6. Trade Dana for some backstrap sinew.
7. Make horn nocks for my wife's ELB.
8. Finish a yew ELB I have started.
9. Take a nap.
I think I'll start at the bottom and work my way up.
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This will probly extend it summer but oh well.
1. Christmas Trade Gift
2. An all wood crossbow for my Dad
3. Viking Longbow for my Stepdad
4. A Longbow for a friend that gave me all my Yew wood.
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As of December 31st, I'll be retired! I hope to make 6 bows, 4 or 5 knives, a lot of arrows, and somehow get the honey-do list underway!!! ;)
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Congrats on your upcoming retirerment, must be nice. Make the bows and stuff first
and do the honey dos later ;D
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1. Finish the Christmas Trade project
2. Finish daughters ipe selfbow
3. Points on daughters arrows
4. Nephews new bow since his dad broke his
5. Bamboo backed Ipe bow for me
6. Red Oak starter for friend Joe
7. Tradepoints for Barry
8. Knife set for friend Brad
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1. Finish a osage 80 lb. longbow for a friend
2. Finish building my bronze furnace, and cast various manuballista and scorpion parts
4. Start writing a booklet on how to build Roman catapults (outlined already)
4. Get back to work on a Asiatic composite bow
5. Get back to learning how to knap stone
6. Start a primitive crossbow
7. Lots of shooting practice, if the weather cooperates
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i havent made abow in 3 months so
1. make a bow
thats it for now beacuse for me making a bow is a LONG process
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.........Hunt all the time ! ;D....bob
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ive got a hickory selfbow in the works. hope to get it done to hunt with it this late season. other than that, i plan to get an osage board to do some bbo's, and make my mom a NA flute from a ceder fence rail.
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OK here goes:
-finish my first bow ( almost done)
-do 8 more hickory/pecan board bows same way and give them to dad,brother,cousin, 21yr old son,19yr daughter,12yr old daughter,neighbor and the guy that let me harvest the Osage so he will let me go again in the spring.
- make arrows for all of the above.
- take a cyborg shooter stump shooting with one of the extra bows I will have made and see if I can infect him with the obsession to go au natural.
-take my first deer ( I know its late in the season but I'm optimistic)
- scout more Osage and identify likely harvest candidates.
- find and harvest some worthy shoots to make own shafts
- build my reflexing caul
-build my steam tube
- build my hot box to speed up the drying on the Osage that i have and the elm that I'm gonna get
- start my garden starts in the basement under a grow light so I don't have to buy the plants this year.
- do my first Osage self bow
- do my first tip overlays
-do my first recurved tip
-heat treat out the 4" set my current Osage "sidewinder has in it and sinew back it. (waiting to finish my replacement bow before I even think about being bowless.)- increase my accuracy from 15 and 20yds out to 25 and 30yds.
-trade for some turkey feathers and do first set of self knocked paleo arrows with trade points.
I know that all sounds rather ambitious and if I don't get it all done by the time spring roles around and we go to Ojam then I guess I will be further down the path and maybe I can have something useful to contribute to the gathering . Danny
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Dane ya left ou the the Yooper bow :(
Bob you lucky dog!
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1: Finish the hickory pryamid bow for finnishnative
2: make 6 elm flatbows for my metalhead crew lol make 6 hickory bows for the others in the crew.
3: Make arrows for all of the above.
4:make 2 hickory longbows, to send to a friend in germany.
5: Make a bow horse.
6: Find a reliable source for sinew (i've been thinking of going to the horse slaughter house in St.jacobs)
7: make an andaman island/ Holmegaard bow for this chick I met yesterday that works at starbucks and thinks im "sweet" mwahaha
8: Make a 7' Elm ELB for my giant viking friend.
9: for my own experience a set of 4 pine stelmoores.
10: for the same reason some pine and spruce flat bows from 2"x4"
11: Stalk the various woods and trails by the river to find suitable hickory, walnut, ash, and oak...i never used maple yet maybe that should be added.
12: Cast some bronze or copper arrowheads
13: make more bone tips.
14:......14.....OHHH and make some targets for the new archery group im setting up in the west end of toronto.
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Christmas trade project.
maybe some points.
as much huntin as I can swing.
chase lots of rings.
and enjoy the holidays.
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-make a gull wing bow with recurves to bootboy
-finish the gull winged rowanbow you have seen on the topic "sneak peak"(before christmas :o)
-get a radical recurve gull wing bow sinewed and tillered
-hunt (gonna start tomorrow)
-make lots of arrows for all above
-make a 80 lbs training bow for myself
-study
-snowboard
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Work on bows,cut bow wood and hunt.Small list O ya make up some more arrows. :)
I seem to do better without a list and just do what I feel like at the time.I do need
to finish my Christmas trade. :)
Pappy
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Pappy you left out cooking, Greg's gonna be disappointed ;)
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Dane ya left ou the the Yooper bow :(
Bob you lucky dog!
Dana, you are right! The maple Yooper bow, and an elm bow from a stave Jamie graciously gifted me with this last May.
I may wait until spring or summer to get to work on those two. The staves are both premo, so I want to take my time and be in the right state of mind when I begin those.
Kind of thinking I want to try a Holmie with the elm stave, not sure with the stave you gave me yet. Recurved maybe? All I know for sure now is that I want to keep the maple natural colored, no staining.
Dane
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If ya want to be in the right state of mind on the Yooper stave, drink a six pack first ;) ;D
and say Holy Wuh Eh a bunch of times while workin on it ;D
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Try and hunt with a hornbeam bow I just finished...hopefully get a shot opportunity.
Finish a second hornbeam bow that is about to brace at this point, may recurve the tips on that one.
Start working on staves for the Tn. Classic...laying out the bows, roughing them in with bandsaw, reflexing in readiness to tiller.
Make a bunch of bow strings for the Tn. Classic...
Already have made a bunch of bow-stringers for the Tn. Classic...
Enjoy Christmas Holidays... ;) :)
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Glad you are back Greg.Ya I had forgot about the Classic staves,well better get at it.Lots to do. ;D
Pappy
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Make primitive gear. Eat ,drink, be merry. Make lots more primitive gear eat , drink and be merry. And repeat.
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I like you thinking nugget.That sounds like a plan. :) :)
Pappy
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I've got a snakey chokecherry stave that I just started as well as some interesting hawthorne staves...
trying some new stuff this winter...
more to come :D ;D ::)
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Winter to do List:
1.Finish Christmas Trade Gift.
2.Talk Dana out of some of that sinew.
3.Learn how to make some kind of arrows.
4.Finish up 2 board bows in process as gifts for my son and nephew.
5.Buy some Dacron and learn how to make strings.
6.Buy a 10' 2x12 and make the easy shaving horse from plans i got on the forum.
7.Get some Knapping tools so i can start making a mess of some rocks.
8.Make a good roach belly belt knife and sheath or just buy one from Dean Hazuka.. ;D i like that idea better.
9.Learn how to identify trees and get some staves drying.
10.Enjoy every day, be thankful for all that i have, take a deep breath before i get mad and enjoy the coming holidays.
its a abitious list but i guess we need to be optimistic.. :)
Bishop
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1. Finish my Christmas trade gift
2. Finish a bow, one, bow, any bow ::)
3. Learn to knap, make a few points. (Hopefully my hints on the refrigerator door were taken seriously by my family SarahAnne).
4. Make a few primitive arrows
5. Harvest a piece of Osage before I loose the lease on the property Dec 31st.
6. Tie lots of flies
7. Fix door on bedroom closet (Sorry guys my wife was looking over my shoulder just then)
8. Deer season has been a bust so far so get ready for spring Turkey season
9. Make some trade points from bandsaw steel I'm getting
10. Take some time off, line off some honey-do's from my list (necessary before I do any of the others)
Otoe
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Sounds like ya got yer priorities straight there Mike, hehe ;D.
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You got it Paul. Of course I have to start at 10 and work my way to 1.
I have another to add to my list.
We dodged the snow today that the weathermen predicted. Yea!! :D. I got all the limbs that came down with the ice cut up and piled off to the side ready to haul off. I'm going to wait until the ice melts off of them so I'm not hauling six tons of ice and 1000 pounds of limbs. :P. I did get to walk my pasture fences today and take the Lab and Springer for a romp as I checked for additional fence damage.
So heres another:
As I approached my pond, over 30 Mallards and Gadwalls took flight.
11. Take shotgun and make meat for Jambalaya. Mmmmmmmmm :) I think I start on this one tomorrow.
Otoe
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Wow! I'm in a good crowd, I can see you guys stay busy. Good luck in your future winter projects. I noticed a couple references to building hot boxes. How quick will one of these drop moisture in a stave if it is reduced. Thanks for any advice in advance. Glenn.
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Glenn it depends on how hot and the humidity in the box, I keep a thermometer and a humidity gauge in mine
I try to keep the humidity at 25 to 35% and monitor the wieght loss of the stave with a scale, when it stops
losing wieght your good to go.
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knappin, arras a couple bows, some huntin and 8 chairs for the dining room table i just finished :)
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I learned that me and lists don't get along! Winter is my time to build bows, arrows et al. I started a HHB stave today that Greg and Pappy gave me at the last TOJam. So I guess my season has begun.
Pat
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make it through the Holidays Happy
Get a job that fits my situation.
Make more bows seriously
Take my Art more serious
Find a girl Friend :P
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1. Finish my Christmas trade gift
2. Finish a bow, one, bow, any bow ::)
3. Learn to knap, make a few points. (Hopefully my hints on the refrigerator door were taken seriously by my family SarahAnne).
4. Make a few primitive arrows
5. Harvest a piece of Osage before I loose the lease on the property Dec 31st.
6. Tie lots of flies
7. Fix door on bedroom closet (Sorry guys my wife was looking over my shoulder just then)
8. Deer season has been a bust so far so get ready for spring Turkey season
9. Make some trade points from bandsaw steel I'm getting
10. Take some time off, line off some honey-do's from my list (necessary before I do any of the others)
Otoe
Ok, guys it's time to take inventory of what you got done so far.
1. Finished...Replied to DanaM that I'm all about doing it again next year. Great fun.
2. :( Wood still curing, but hopefully at OJAM or Pappy's Classic (fingers crossed). ;D
3. Still learning, but I've broke some rocks (and a toilet tank)
4. Some, but nothing to post.
5. That one got past me, but I'm going to ask the new land owners. Found more good Osage and a toilet tank on the place to boot. :D
6. A few, and even caught a few fish with them in the Blue River
7. Are you kidding. No real intention of starting on it. ;D (I can type that with impunity since she's out of the room)
8. Still gearing up. Season starts in April.
9. Made a few, traded for a few. Thanks PK
10.Yep, keeping peace on the home front when necessary
Otoe.
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Worked on some bows,finished some bows and done some hunting,O ya made some arrows.
I guess I am finished.Now for the spring list,Get ready for the Classic,get ready for the Classic,get ready for the Classic. ;D ;D ;)
Pappy
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Hey pappy better start getting ready for the Classic ;) ;D
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I made myself a hickory bow. Finished it up January. I made myself some hand planed white pine arrows for it. I've been doing a fair amount of teaching. I've been in on 2 board bows and an osage. Still working on the osage with a friend. Also taught some string making. I'm also working on an Eastern Woodland style blunt form split hickory a a prize for an archery shoot. LOL. Beats me why anyone would want that. Other than that I shoot 3 times a week or so. Just enjoying retirement. Jawge