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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Dustybaer on February 18, 2007, 05:11:13 pm

Title: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on February 18, 2007, 05:11:13 pm
guys, check this out:  a couple of days ago, i got this in the mail.  what preceded this package was a generous offer by patb to send me some sourwood shoots.  meanwhile, i thought shoots would look cool with stone tips, so I asked cowboy if he could make me some.  at the same time pat sent me a message, that he added some tips cowboy made to the package and a little surprise.  well, the surprise was this awesome arrow.  but the coolest thing on that arrow is, that it's pat's first knapped glasstip.  and the dedication is the icing on the cake  ;D

cowboy, your tips are absolutely fantastic.  pictures do not do them justice.  these are the first stone tips i held in my hand.  what a workmanship.  one will get a sourwood shaft, one a bloodtwig shaft and one a bamboo shaft.  then i will display them in my dining room, along with pat's arrow.  all the shafts mentioned were presents from friends and i will fletch them with turkey feathers, which were presents from a friend who now lives in alaska.  i guess i could truly call them friendship arrows.



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Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pat B on February 18, 2007, 07:03:33 pm
Ah shucks! :-[     Pat
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on February 18, 2007, 07:12:13 pm
no need to be embarrassed.  you're just a great guy, everybody knows it and there's nothing you can do about it.   ;D
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: cowboy on February 18, 2007, 08:03:03 pm
Well I'll be damned (not really I hope). I'm kinda shocked to see this - that my little ole points from Tejas are now in Germany, thanks for posting Marius! glad you like them.
  Pat: Don't know how long you've been knapping, but that glass point will take meat along with the best of them - I'll guarantee it!! Will have to get with you sometime of shafts - what to cut and how to straighten.
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Little John on February 18, 2007, 11:11:53 pm
The generosity and comeradery here at this site is awsome. Really special gifts from special friends.  Awsome arrow Pat same for the points Cowboy.   Kenneth
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Agbowyer on February 18, 2007, 11:15:37 pm
Very impressive work guys.
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pat B on February 19, 2007, 01:20:25 am
1/4" glass is easy. You don't have to worry about thinning it. A little pressure flaking and you're there. I've yet to make one with raw stone, just glass and slabbed obsidian. Cowboy, That was my hunting arrow for the last part of our deer season. I was ready but the deer weren't.  Let me know and I'll do my best to help you with shoot arrows. They can be time consuming to make but in my opinion that's part of the process.   Pat
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on February 19, 2007, 03:53:31 am
The generosity and camaraderie here at this site is awesome. Really special gifts from special friends.  Awesome arrow Pat same for the points Cowboy.   Kenneth

i still think it's the primitive/traditional thing.  it's the same way with my primitive friends in germany.  the generosity and willingness to help is amazing.  just like on this site.  unfortunately you don't see that much nowadays, in our modern society.

cowboy, send me your address and i'll send you some bloodtwig shoots (that a friend of mine already straightened  ;D )
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: George Tsoukalas on February 23, 2007, 09:49:43 am
Awesome! That was a very kind gesture. Jawge
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pappy on March 09, 2007, 06:39:13 am
Sweet those are NICE!!! :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: MattE on March 09, 2007, 09:16:04 am
I have one of Pat's arrows as well. It is one of his first cane arrows. I have it displayed in my living room with other arrows people have given me. It is a well made arrow with one of Allen Holts ryolite heads up front.No one can even guess how much I value Pat's arrow's. Thanks again Pat!
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: michigan bowguy on March 09, 2007, 11:43:55 am
very cool stuff you got db!
 great job pat,and cowboy!!!
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on May 12, 2007, 09:26:33 pm
well, looks like pat got his shoots.  cowboy and michigan bowguy,  yours were mailed the same time.  please let me know if you don't get them soon.
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: cowboy on May 15, 2007, 01:48:02 pm
Will do Marius, appreciate it. Wish I could have made the classic to meet a bunch of you guys - looks like ya'll had a blast!
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dingleberry on May 21, 2007, 12:18:39 pm
Marius,  its christmas year round for you ;D.....what great gifts!

p.s.  whatcha been workin on lately?
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on May 22, 2007, 02:57:24 am
dingleberry, just got back from our version of the classic (in neubrunn, near wuerzburg).  thursday was father's day in germany, so i took my son with me.  4 days of camping, shooting, drinking beer and talking trash.  it was a pity, none of the mailed stuff came in on time.  as soon as the pictures are on-line i'll post a few here.

and now i'll try to finish the quiver for the southern community bow project.   ;D
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: GregB on May 22, 2007, 08:54:02 am
Beautiful points and arrows!

Marius, couldn't you get Pat to make you a bow string? I've heard through reliable sources that Pat makes a very "fine" bow string! ;D
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Dustybaer on May 24, 2007, 03:12:23 am
greg, i thought about it, but if i had pat's string on the "two deer" bow, you two braggarts would be unbearable.  ;D
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pat B on May 24, 2007, 10:07:05 am
Greg, We will have to double up on Marius next year. Between the two of us he will be unbeatable.  ;D Pat
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: GregB on May 24, 2007, 02:25:34 pm
Pat, I think all he's lacking for an unbeatable combination is to add one of your "fine" strings to his "two deer bow"! ;D
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pat B on May 24, 2007, 03:26:09 pm
Hell, we have given him enough stuff! Let him make his own damn string. :P I wonder what he will bring us from Germany next year. ???    Pat
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 24, 2007, 04:02:28 pm
Yea Greg, Pat wants those strings to be special. If everybody has one it wont be special anymore.  That is why Pat is only going to make one for me, for my next special project.  ;D  Pat, I will let you know how long I need it when I get the bow a little farther along.  ;) ;D ;D Justin
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on May 24, 2007, 04:07:30 pm
                    Justin.......Whatever happened to "I wanna make my own stuff !" ??? ;D..............bob
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 24, 2007, 04:13:04 pm
OK Bob, since you called me out on it.  Its not that I want the string so much. Its more that I want to give Pat static.   ;D Justin
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Pat B on May 24, 2007, 04:32:26 pm
If your special project is yew, its gonna be a long wait! :D    Pat
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 24, 2007, 06:27:24 pm
OK, I deserved that.  ;D Justin
Title: Re: Shoots, Tips and Arrows (Presents from PatB and Cowboy)
Post by: D. Tiller on May 25, 2007, 08:57:45 pm
Justin you still snappen Yew wood???  I really think you nead to start getting some profesional help now. Ohhh! Them poor defensless Yews!!!  ;D