Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: simk on January 21, 2022, 12:32:44 pm
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Hello Guys :D
A little while ago I was once again looking for our baby kittens which their mama always tried to hide from us. she often brought them to our neighbours farm. So while once more searching for the baby kittens I noticed my neighbours fence post depot. It somehow looked interesting....there were yew fence post amongst... ;D I then spoke to my neighbour and traded a fencepost for just something, cut it into sister-billets and made a bow. not the rot in the heartwood nor the worms in the sap lead to major problems; I was too lucky to find that the worms just stopped worming one ring above the back and the rot just stopped rotting one ring beyond the belly. very happy (-S
cheers
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the bow
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more bow
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thanx for watching
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I've heard of osage post bows, but never yew. That's pretty coo, and a fine looking bow as well.
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nice fence post... post 8)
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That's a great looking bow with your typical beautiful tillering job.
Mark
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What a great story and a beautiful character yew bow. Love the bend and the contrast of the sapwood/heartwood in that bow. Thanks for posting!
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That is a sweet looking bow. Excellent job bringing that fencepost to life.
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beautiful,, congrats,, (-S
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What a find. Talk about rags to riches!
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Very nice
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Awesome bow and story. Save some more of your neighbors posts.
Yew fence posts"How dar you(those fence post cutters)!" Heretics.
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That is a stunning gorgeous bow...but where are the kitten pictures???
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Amazing work on such a challeging piece of wood...
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Wow! Looks great! Jawge
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Wow, I don’t think I’d have the guts to try that one! Awesome story, and beautifully executed! (SH)
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Wow. Another masterpiece. Way to save that piece of yew from a miserable life stuck in the ground.
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Great bow. Based on that story, you need to name it Lazarus!
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What a transformation...and what a bow!!
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Beautiful bow , like everything about it , nice save .😉 Pappy
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Well I’m sure with a quiver full of blunts. And someone manning the bow. That fence post would keep the critters in.
Nice work
Bjrogg
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thanks everybody for the nice compliments. I really enjoyed this build. everything but worked out perfectly - built in a real flow, like butter-cream. altough I must admit, the first plan didn't work out - the plan was to make a strong victorian longbow. alone, this wasn't working out - my victorian longbow pulled about 30#@28"....there was just not enough meat. So I shortend it and did what I like most, again kinda holmegard.
and found pics of the suspects (-S they are adults by now, living in their own place.
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Just beautiful. You can make a bow out of anything!
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There we go - cute little furballs. Even though I know yew is good for any design, I still think of longbows first... it's always good to see one like this to remind me of other possibilities!
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Very fine looking shooter with lots of character there for these parts.A favorite design of many executed very well.
Like the overlays and handle too.
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Speaking of fence posts and critter culprits reminded me of a news story I read on a UK site.
A landowner had to put up a new fence and spent quite some time cutting new posts for it.
After a day or two of rest he went out ready to start setting them, but found the entire stack of posts missing.
He had assumed someone had stolen the posts. Then he noticed drag marks and follwed them to a near by stream. There he found the nicest looking beaver dam he'd ever seen.
The beavers finding so many precut logs had plenty of time to build it right.
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excellent bow! nice photography too :-)
Looking forward to see it life coming months
see ya