Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Gaur on September 16, 2014, 08:23:49 pm
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My long time friend Rick wanted to make a bow for his brother as a gift. I let him pick a set of osage billets and a snake skin. He picked a set of billets that ended up having a bit of snakey in them. I was a little jelous as I didn't know they were snakey. The snake skin he chose was a skin form a young reticulated python that I had been looking for a long time as I wanted a nice tight pattern. Fortunately I got another one recently. Rick did most of the work on the bow as I walked him through it.
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Tips are Siamese rosewood.
We used take down sleeves and then rattan wrap for the grip over the stainless
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68" ntn. I put the scale on it this morning and it came out to 55# @ 28". His brother is a lefty. I need to still put a leather arrow rest on it.
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put in my photo editor and using the straightening tool helps me see the tiller better.
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/osagebowwithgrid_zps209d9966.jpg) (http://s244.photobucket.com/user/bamboo_archer/media/osagebowwithgrid_zps209d9966.jpg.html)
Thanks for looking. Hoping to make some more bows this year as this last year we moved back to the US and have been busy getting settled/remodeling.
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Nice bow. Those skins are KILLER!
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Nice job....good to see ya around again randy :)
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Nice . your teaching your friend well.
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Nice work. beautiful bend on that thing nice design and specs..and a take-down!!! Nice gifting by both of you.
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thanks all. Well I didn't have lots of choices for making a take down. I've lived overseas for many years so I bring the US woods as billets in duffle bags or con visitors to bring them to me. Now that we are living in MN I am looking forward to making some one piece bows for a change. Though you still might see a take down or two as I still have some sleeves and a few billets left.
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Very nice. Young retics definitely make nice skins for bows!
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That is a beautiful bow. Great job on it
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That's a great looking bow :) and the tiller looks dead on to me.
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Your teamwork paid off, that bow is very nice. Your friends brother is getting one sweet bow there. :)
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nothin else.to say ..... cept...very nice bow...looks great!
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Very nice bow, excellent tiller!
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always wonder where you guys get all the snake skins ... oooh, and an excellent bow here, must be a good teacher!
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Nice bow Randy, good to see you here again.
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thanks for the replies.
Simson I've lived overseas in Thailand for the last 20 years. I am always watching for road kill. I am friends with some of the snake handlers at the snake farm where they do shows for tourists. Every once in a while one dies and I have gotten a few that way. Then there are the pythons that get caught eating farmers chickens near the fish hatchery I work at. Word has gotten around that I like the skins so people give them to me. I recently cleaned out the freezer and dried a few that I had in there. Burmese python, Reticulated python and cobras. My wife loved having those in the freezer ;)
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Nice lookin' bow
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Seen that one somewhere else. ;) :) :) Still looking good,nice work and good to have you back in the states. :)
Pappy
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Sweet bow, and I know exactly what you mean about the wife not being thrilled about a freezer full of snakes :laugh:
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Some "friends" used to have a small rattler frozen in the coiled position. They would wait until you went to the can and then set it on the arm of your chair.
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thanks guys. Yeah Pappy I try to keep people thinking about self bows other places too.
Bubby; we moved out of our house and I was fearing my wifes friend threw out the skins while we were gone but so happy to find them still there. Can cover quite a few bows with how big the large reticulated python was.
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That sure is a beautiful bow! Jawge