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Main Discussion Area => Bow of the Month Contest => Topic started by: OldBow on December 06, 2007, 12:42:49 pm

Title: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: OldBow on December 06, 2007, 12:42:49 pm

Good Job, Cody! Your Mulberry Bow
from Your Build-Along Project is Now Self Bow of the Month for November

Cody Snyder  of St. George, Utah
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,2605.0.html

From Cody and his dad, Justin: The bow is 68" mulberry that Cody cut last fall. He even split the log himself. A lot of work for a 10 year old.  It had a lot of sapwood on it so we used the band saw to remove the sapwood.  I let him do all the cutting, I just didn't get far from the kill switch.   I did spell him off for a while when he was using the draw knife to remove the rest of the sapwood and chase a ring.  I even gave him one of the pieces of banding that Pappy let me have. He filed and sharpened it and made himself a scraper.  He then sealed the back with glue. I helped him with the dimensions, and he laid out the bow.  I helped him cut out the profile so he didn't loose all his hard work.
First thing on the agenda today was to rasp the stave and clean it up.  Then he used heat flatten the limb in a couple of places.  I don't know if you can see it very well, but there was about 15-20 degrees of propeller in each limb.  Cody heated the limb, and I helped him with the clamping. I showed Cody all the different colors of wood, the different types and color of horn, and the different antlers that I have for nocks.  No big shock, Cody wanted buffalo horn.  I would have picked the same when I was his age.  He cut the overlays from a horn that I had cut the tips off and sent to someone.  Then he sanded and shaped them with the belt sander.  He glued them on with TB 3 and used a rat tail file to cut in the string grooves.  After applying gpher snakeskins and cutting tip overlays.
This bow got lots of praise part of which was due to the special father/son project:
"Great looking Bow Cody,I had faith in you.Looks great." - Pappy
"Excellant bow.Love the snake skins and the grip.Thats a tough looking bow,you should be very proud.Now you can get started on some small game.Thanks for shareing guys." tradrick
"You done good, Cody. Great looking bow." -Hillbilly

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Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 06, 2007, 12:54:18 pm

 :'( That is enough to bring a tear to a dad's eye. 
Good job son, you worked very hard and did a great job on this bow. Dad

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Pappy on December 06, 2007, 12:58:05 pm

Great job Cody,well done.Now tell your dad to bring you to Tn. and show us a
thing or 2. ;) :) and be sure and where your Green hat. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Sidewinder on December 06, 2007, 01:18:01 pm

Great job Cody and props to you too Justin for bringing him up in the way he should go.Danny

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on December 06, 2007, 01:38:15 pm

....Congradulations young fella ! Yer hard work and persistence carried ya through....................bob

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: DanaM on December 06, 2007, 01:49:24 pm

Way to git er done cody, very impressive bow for anyone let alone your first bow and at your age.
looks like you have a bright future.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Manager on December 06, 2007, 02:23:33 pm

WAHOO CODY!!!!!!

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Jbell on December 06, 2007, 02:44:14 pm

Now that is way cool! ;D Congratulations!

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: John K on December 06, 2007, 03:07:22 pm

Way to go Cody !
I can only hope my first bow turns out half as good as you'rs !

formerbutcher

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: RidgeRunner on December 06, 2007, 03:08:20 pm

Way to go Cody.  Very Very nice bow.

Justin, I am with Pappy on this one.  
Bring that young man to TN next year.

David

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Bishop on December 06, 2007, 03:42:32 pm

Cody, great job and congrats on the BOM win its something to be proud of for sure...im pretty sure i read that you and your pop were making the trip to Tenn in May and i look forward to meeting you. maybe you can teach me a thing or two.

Bishop

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Hillbilly on December 06, 2007, 04:22:50 pm

Congratulations, Cody-you did a great job. Like everybody else said, you've gotta get your dad to bring you to TOJAM.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: cowboy on December 06, 2007, 05:27:54 pm

That's a great job Cody - congrats! Hopefully I'll see ya'll at TOEJAM....

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: ber643 on December 06, 2007, 07:14:45 pm

Congratulations, Cody! It was a close race too, ya done good.

Your bow is also now on my TBD pages, Page 15. Thanks.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: koan on December 06, 2007, 09:04:52 pm

Great job Cody!! Ya started your 2nd one yet? ;)....Brian

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Calendargirl on December 06, 2007, 11:05:21 pm

Sarah put Cody's name on his hat so his daddy can't steal it from him!!!  >:D

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Codeman on December 06, 2007, 11:15:49 pm

Thanks guys, and gals, that is really nice! When we shoot bows at boy scouts, Ill bring that bow.

I won the bow of the month before my dad!!!!!!!!  ;D
And I hope my dad will take me to TN.   Cody

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: mullet on December 06, 2007, 11:32:00 pm

    Get your dad to bring you ,and I have you some more skins.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Calendargirl on December 06, 2007, 11:37:53 pm

you gonna set up a table and sign autographs?   ;D  We can make your dad fan you if you get hot while your signing them!  >:D  ;D

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: medicinewheel on December 07, 2007, 02:05:57 am

hey cody!  -  ...what's the next bow going to be like??
frank

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Woodland Roamer on December 07, 2007, 09:46:30 am

Congrats Cody! Great job!

Alan

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Pat B on December 07, 2007, 11:00:11 am

Congratulations Cody. 8) You deserved to win with all the hard work and time you put into this beautiful bow. You must have gotten your brains and looks from your Mom! ;D    Pat

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Tom B on December 07, 2007, 06:45:49 pm

way to go Cody.Saw the article your dad wrote,and was impressed.Having a mentor helps.All you guys with hats to keep your head warm.A small army of good folks.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Marc St Louis on December 08, 2007, 06:22:52 am

Well done Cody.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: duffontap on December 28, 2007, 04:48:16 am

Nice work Cody!  Now don't feel to bad for your dad when your skills excel his.  Ha, ha.  Listen to your Pa--the man knows how to tiller a bow.

             J. D.

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Little John on December 30, 2007, 12:00:39 pm

Super job on a super bow, glad you won and am also glad you do scouting and shoot primitive bows.   Kenneth

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: Codeman on December 31, 2007, 12:11:23 pm

Thanks guys.  Keneth my dad said maybe we can come shoot with you sometime. Cody

Title: Re: Cody Snyder's Mulberry is November Self Bow of the Month
Post by: bow kid44 on May 09, 2008, 11:14:16 pm

nice bow >:D