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Title: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 07, 2007, 04:33:51 pm

  Hello all. This is the first bow that I have posted on PA,I always feel a little intimidated by all your superb craftmanship, so here it goes. He's 62" ntn, 58# @26" and has about an inch and a half of follow right after unstringing and keeps about a half inch at rest. The tip overlays are from an old osage board and also had to add a bit to the handle to get the depth I wanted. I had an old turtle shell laying around with the scales all popped off, so I thought that one of these might make an interesting arrow pass.

 This stave has been laying around the shop for three years and I never thought I could get a bow out of it. Probably had about 10 knots and a couple of branches still attached. Ipicked it up a couple of months ago, debarked it and found that there was just enough room to go between all those knots, luckily most of them were located to the edge of the stave. Once I followed the swirling grain between knots, countless hours of hacking through tough knots and tillering my most challenging bow yet this is what I ended up with," Chief Naughty Hedge".

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Post by: Jbell on April 07, 2007, 04:37:40 pm

Sorry for all the pics, here are a couple more. Enjoy. Justin

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Post by: episaacs on April 07, 2007, 05:15:40 pm

Great looking arrow slinger!  Looks like my vote for bow of the month has an early candidate :)  Ed

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Post by: Pat B on April 07, 2007, 05:29:30 pm

You did an excellant job tillering that difficult stave. The upper limb does look a little stiff from mid limb out to just before the tip but not bad at all. The snake skin and finish look great also.  No need to feel intimidated any more!!! You done good!    Pat

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Post by: Justin Snyder on April 07, 2007, 05:35:30 pm

That is pretty impressive.  I like the snakes on it, nice and dark. It looks cold there. Justin

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Post by: jamie on April 07, 2007, 06:00:20 pm

why on earth would you be intimidated when you build like that. very nice.

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Post by: venisonburger on April 07, 2007, 06:44:18 pm

Yeah, don't be worried, you got me beat. I never saw a turtle shell scale on a bow, what a cool idea. Thats a beauty of a bow.
VB

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Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on April 07, 2007, 07:07:49 pm

 Holey Moley ! And your INTIMIDATED give me a break ! Nice work there Jbell......bob

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: AndrewS on April 07, 2007, 07:56:39 pm

oh, it is a pure beauty :)
A fine job and very impressive.

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Post by: DanaM on April 07, 2007, 08:07:10 pm

Think I will go burn all my bows and crawl under a turtle shell and hide i'm feelin intimated here. ;D
Post more often will ya with work like that ya got nuthin to hide.
Superb justin, quite stunning all in all.

danaM

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Post by: George Tsoukalas on April 07, 2007, 09:06:14 pm

You can stop feeling intimidated. That bow is outstanding! Jawge

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 08, 2007, 01:36:09 am

Ah shucks. Thanks fellas for all the great compliments, you all have made my day.

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Post by: Hillbilly on April 08, 2007, 10:16:10 am

Looks like you did a a great job with that piece of wood. That's a coincidence - I've got a couple turtle shell scales in my shop that I've been thinking about doing that exact same thing with. I know I will after seeing this one.

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Post by: Rich Saffold on April 08, 2007, 01:08:07 pm

Very well done JBell! Turtle shell scale is a nice touch, plus character hedge and snake skins are the perfect blend.

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Post by: OldBow on April 08, 2007, 01:17:41 pm

"This is the first bow that I have posted on PA,I always feel a little intimidated by all
your superb craftmanship, so here it goes." - JBell

Hah! Not only do you obviously make fine bows but have a sense of humor! ;D
Very glad to set this one up for April Self Bow of the Month!! -OldBow

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: GregB on April 08, 2007, 08:12:08 pm

Justin, I really like your bow! Extremely good job on a difficult stave. Lot's of good detail and creativity especially with the turtle rest. Great finish work as well! Cute little hunting partner you have there too, maybe you should make her a bow of her own? ;D

Keep posting, I'm sure we all could learn a lot from you in the future... :)

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Post by: 330bull on April 09, 2007, 12:40:29 am

Simply Awesome!

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Post by: Pappy on April 09, 2007, 06:32:50 am

Very nice,tiller is dead on and the detail and finish are great.
    Pappy

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Post by: ridge on April 09, 2007, 08:38:28 am

   Awesome bow!     R

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 09, 2007, 09:07:28 am

Thanks alot for all the kind words. I am so glad to have a community like this to be able to go to and get inspiration from everyday. It is places like this that get my creative juices flowing and keep me striving to go forward. Thanks!
 Greg, I actually posted that pic of her on accident I meant to post different pic of her holding the braced bow, she got a kick out of it though. ;D She is the proud owner of my first selfbow, wow I've learned alot since then. Justin

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Post by: Stickhead on April 09, 2007, 04:22:00 pm

Looks like a museum piece to me.  Great worksmanship and perseverance to carve that sucker.  (Straight staves are boring.)  Nice finish, too.

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Post by: Ryano on April 09, 2007, 09:06:35 pm

Thats a fine looking stick! :)

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Post by: tpoof on April 10, 2007, 12:26:32 am

Stunning,,,awesome display,,,love the name :) intimadated   ya right,,, ;D

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Post by: jpitts on April 10, 2007, 01:28:42 am

Awesome looking bow...love the turtle shell  touch too

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Post by: duffontap on April 10, 2007, 02:03:27 am

You're a next-level bowyer my friend.  That's a beautiful bow right down to the little details. 

        J. D. Duff

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Post by: Earl on April 10, 2007, 04:19:05 am

Great job! ;D

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Post by: hammertime on April 14, 2007, 12:13:28 pm

WOW! Thats a great lookin weapon love the snake skins and all the pics.Well done.Hammertime

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Post by: davkt on April 14, 2007, 07:53:51 pm

Like everyone says that is a fantastic bow!

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Keenan on April 14, 2007, 08:44:48 pm

  Justin, That is a very impressive bow.  We are often our own worst crittics and you have no reson to be intimidated with a bow like that. I think even the most crittical of bowyers would be drooling over that bow. Congrtaulations Justin, I hope to see more of your work.   Keenan

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 15, 2007, 12:15:45 am

You are totally right Keenan I am my own worst critic. My biggest downfall is trying to go beyond my abilities, most of my failures are due to me trying to push the envelope, gotta SLOW DOWN. Right now I am gathering all the information I can on building an Egyptian angular bow, gosh why do I do this to myself? Thanks for all the encouraging comments, really has boosted my confidence.  ;D Justin

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Post by: jpitts on April 15, 2007, 11:50:45 pm

Justin, why not do a build-a-long on the angular bow.....I'd love to see how it's done.  ;D

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 16, 2007, 12:05:28 am

That is an interesting idea, I might do that after obtaining my info and materials. I am having a hard time finding anthing, just a couple articles and some pics. I guess not alot of people are making these bows their are a few people on the ATARN site and I think Thimo is building one, he has shown some pics over on paleo planet. Other than that not a whole lot out there, but I do have a pretty good idea of what I am going to do. Justin

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Pat B on April 16, 2007, 12:37:21 am

Someone a few years ago on PA built an Egyptian angle bow. Do a search in the archives.  Pat

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Post by: mamba on April 16, 2007, 10:55:05 am

Beautiful !

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Post by: Hillbilly on April 16, 2007, 11:39:03 am

I remember Russell (Bowmonkey) built and posted one, but that's been many moons ago :)

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Post by: jpitts on April 20, 2007, 01:05:04 am

Theres a show on the History Channel called "Ancient Discoveries" that showed an angle bow and an "expert" shooting it as part of a program on Egypt's weapons and where they got them from....that was a few weeks back....
They also had a demo on Greek bronze armor. They make a replica and shot at it with an ELB and a steel bodkin point......it practically bounced off.....amazing stuff....

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: ber643 on April 20, 2007, 09:50:16 am

Just beautiful, Justin. I also am a fan of Snakeskin backed Character Osage bows, and this is  really stylish. If you don't mind, I would also like to add your Full Draw to my "Traditional Bows Drawn" section of my personal web site. Also your daughters "attempt" at full draw - that's priceless. If you send me (e-mail or PM)one with her own bow, at true FD I'll post that also. I have captured the others. Check it out (my pages), if you haven't, and let me know. Keep up the good work (and posting them - LOL)
(You'll find the pics on Page11 of the TBD pages.)

http://residents.bowhunting.net/bsdunn/index.htm

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: jignfrog on April 21, 2007, 10:20:33 am

Nice bow.

I like the name of it. I always find it hard to figure out a cool name. I have thought about turtle shell before. But hadn't ever done it. It looks great. Good job.

Jignfrog

Title: Re: "Chief Naughty Hedge"
Post by: Jbell on April 21, 2007, 11:37:29 am

I would be honored Bernie. I will also send ya some full draw pics of my daughter and son, I am sure they will think that is real cool. Thanks.

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Post by: ber643 on April 21, 2007, 02:14:58 pm

Great! If you would, include their (at least first) names, ages, bow stats and then anything else you might want in (like state, etc.). I'll slip them in following you and your daughter. Thank you.