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Title: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 10, 2008, 10:11:59 pm
heres a few of my new multi lam bamboo bows ,hope you enjoy...robustus

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Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 10, 2008, 10:18:55 pm
robustus is an unusual name for a woman, but hey, nice work!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 10, 2008, 10:30:36 pm
actually thats my wife rebecca parker ,robustusmagnon ,thats me  james p from n.c.. but thanks for the comment
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: mullet on June 10, 2008, 10:34:03 pm
       That is real nice James, pretty ,too. Those bows look real good too. Which one is mine? ;)
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 10, 2008, 10:35:08 pm
how did you apply that cool tiger stripe pattern?
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Post by: Justin Snyder on June 10, 2008, 10:47:28 pm
Great looking bows James.
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 10, 2008, 11:14:28 pm
thanks guys, the pattern is just leather dye.us all in how you apply it, i have several techniques that i use,i would have to show you.the speckle is put on with a mouth atomizer .
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: wytetale on June 10, 2008, 11:44:14 pm
Very nice !! What do you use for a center core.
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Ryano on June 10, 2008, 11:49:20 pm
Like I said on the other site. Very nice bows James....you are a real craftsman, your attention to detail is top notch!  ;D
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 10, 2008, 11:55:22 pm
thanks  ,i use many different woods,most bamboo bows i make i use 4to 7 lams i also use two seperate tapers, i build them like i would a fiberglass bow the more the lams the more stable bow you will have .
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: david w. on June 11, 2008, 12:04:51 am
WOW I am stunned those are drop dead gorgeaus :)

I love everything about those bows. the tips are really cool and the nodes on the belly are awsome
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Pat B on June 11, 2008, 12:41:25 am
You've been busy for a working man!  ;)  Becca looks like the Goddess Diana. ;) 8)      You need to put Gabriel in a cupid suit. 8) 8) 8)   Beautiful work as always, James. If Alan shows up there without me, give him hell will ya!     Pat
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 11, 2008, 01:35:52 am
david, your right!  I didn't even notice the nodes on the belly!  That's cool!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: medicinewheel on June 11, 2008, 02:43:52 am
those look like REALLY fast bows to me. and beautiful,too!
more details of the dye/finish work - a tutorial even - would be great!
frank
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 11, 2008, 02:49:55 am
hear, hear!  a build along by robustusmagnon!  everybody now!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: El Destructo on June 11, 2008, 03:06:34 am
robustus is an unusual name for a woman, but hey, nice work!
Better be careful Scott...or you will get the Parker Clan on your Arse....and they are all at least six foot Four...Built Like Linebackers...Karate Experts with Black Hair.....well at least one of them Is....Huh Eddie!!!!    >:D

James ...cool Bows....I guess I need to Try my luck at a Laminated Bow now!!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 11, 2008, 03:21:12 am
Mike, I couldn't help myself! 

Besides, way up here in the Great White North, I'm pretty sure I can get away with it!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Far East Archer on June 11, 2008, 05:45:27 am
Very pretty bows mate!
Tiller looks nice as well and your attention to detail shows  :)

If you not mind I ask, do you taper your bamboo lams?

Alex
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2008, 07:55:56 am
Mighty fine looking crop-o-bows, cuz. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Other%20Stuff/cool02.png)
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: cowboy on June 11, 2008, 09:50:58 am
Them's some fine lookin bows James! I gotta looooong way to go ;D.
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: OldBow on June 11, 2008, 01:00:54 pm
Hmm, no sense in doing full draws for each of your beautiful bows. Obviously, you are a talented bowyer. So I bookmarked your laminates for June LBOM with one picture:

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Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: bowmo on June 11, 2008, 01:30:08 pm
good lookin stuff....i like the prestained wood in the overlays...had thought about that a couple times but always too lazy to do it...looks nice

dan
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: horseapple on June 11, 2008, 02:58:44 pm
Nice looking bows James, either you've had an influence with Vinsons bows or his to yours.  Do you know a guy named Howard Middleton? 

JD
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Post by: Badbill on June 11, 2008, 03:37:54 pm
Wow! I agree those are beautiful bows!  How did you do the tiger striping?
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 11, 2008, 03:40:52 pm
actually vincent met me when he was just 17 or 18 years old,he cut his first tree off my property and i helped him make his first hickory selfbow.after that he was hooked,he then wanted to become one of my students, at the time I was teaching primitive skills and bowmaking, flintknapping and such.  i've been teaching for over 28 years.  i've had many good teachers:  Steve Watts, Errett Callahan, Jack Cresson, Scott Silsby, and many others in primitive technology.  He also wanted to become one of my martial arts students, but because of his lack of discipline and respect for me, my students, and the school in general, he did not last more than four classes.  Although I did continue to teach him bowmaking and flintknapping through the years.  he actually became the best flintknapping student I ever had.  but yet again, with lack of respect and especially ethics he went his way, I went mine.  I will no longer teach him anything.  and to beat it all, he is my brother-in-law;  i am married to his sister Rebecca.  so if there is any influence whatsoever, i am the one that gave it to him, but thanks for your interest . . . .. robustus
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: horseapple on June 11, 2008, 05:46:11 pm
Funny, you like something about his family:) I've also known Vinson since his teens yrs. seems like he has no path or tries to make his own.  Unlike you I'm not as close to him but have seen glimpses of what he could and have done in the past concerning archery and flintknapping, as mentioned in my earkier post do you know Howard Middleton from Florida? I just shipped a recurve to him and I think he talked about you in one of our conversations, and yes it was good things:)

JD Jones
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 11, 2008, 07:02:46 pm
sorry i fell bad about not remembering him, ive just met so many people i cant keep up,but im glad to see it was good things he said about me. so how long and how do you know vm?
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Woodland Roamer on June 11, 2008, 09:00:17 pm
Hey James, beautiful bows!! Are those new ones or some of the ones I saw back in turkey season? I've really been meaning to call you and get back up there to see you again and have my dad bring some of the fiddles he's made. Maybe I can get up there in the next couple weeks. I don't have any more of that rhyolite yet but I hope to go get more after July 4th sometime.

Alan
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 11, 2008, 09:23:34 pm
wlr these bows are new,also i have a few recurves and static tips,and a couple of all wood short thumbring bows ,their just not finished yet ,when they are i will post.thanks for asking and good to hear from you....robustus
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: mullet on June 11, 2008, 09:48:40 pm
  James, did you get the PM about my thumbring shooting? PM's, Check messages up top or your PM's.
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 11, 2008, 09:57:40 pm
yeah i sent you an email did you get it?
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: mullet on June 11, 2008, 10:05:54 pm
  To the one at work or at home? My home one is screwed up. Try a PM.
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: radius on June 11, 2008, 10:06:33 pm
robustus, what do you say?  Will you do a buildalong for these bamboo bows of yours?  We all want to see it!
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Pat B on June 12, 2008, 12:41:56 am
I carved out the thumb ring you drew out on the cow horn tip for me at Hickory, James.  Not quite right yet but after a few more, I might have it. I'll start another thread about thumb rings, et al.       Pat
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: DirtyDan on June 12, 2008, 07:19:12 pm
Awesome bows, Mr. Parker.  I have been wanting to try bamboo on both sides, but you really have it nailed.  Beautiful workmanship, and I know they will fling an arrow at warp speed.

Dan
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 12, 2008, 07:42:49 pm
thanks dd
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: 1/2primitive on June 13, 2008, 01:54:26 pm
Nice looking bows, there. Good job.
    Sean
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Bowbound on June 14, 2008, 06:17:55 pm
I really have to try one of these bows, they all look great, bet they shoot well too. Nice tiller
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: james parker on June 14, 2008, 07:27:55 pm
thanks bowbound im trying hard to get everything  together fo my webpage ,hope to have it up soon. robustus
Title: Re: bamboo backed and belly bows
Post by: Rich Saffold on June 14, 2008, 10:12:00 pm
Robustus, Those are beauties! Very impressive finishes!

Rich