| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Cold and snowy today so i worked on the bow and got the limbs bending a little. Hopefully i will get back on it in a couple days.
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| From: kat
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Good looking symmetry. What weight are you shooting for?
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Trying for about 42 pounds at 27"
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| From: tradslinger
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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looking good Greg, you are getting better and better. It can really get into your blood.
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| From: Randog
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Lookin good Greg.
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| From: Primitive sniper
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Nice work , looks like it’s going to be a good shooter
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| From: wooddamon1
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Looking forward to seeing it finished up Greg!
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| From: Bjrogg
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Got it headed in the right direction.
Bjrogg
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| From: 2 bears
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| Date: 30-Jan-23 |
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Looking good. I have never worked with Hop Hornbeam. I would like to give it a try sometime.>>>-----> Ken
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| From: George Tsoukalas
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| Date: 01-Feb-23 |
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Looking good! Keep up the good work. Jawge
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| From: PA Bones
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| Date: 02-Feb-23 |
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That’s looking great. Never worked with hop hornbeam but I’ve been told it makes a great selfbow. Do you plan to heat treat it at some point?
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 02-Feb-23 |
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I most likely will heat treat it soon.
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| From: Arvin
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| Date: 02-Feb-23 |
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Looking good . Should be a shooter.
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| From: tradslinger
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| Date: 04-Feb-23 |
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let us know how the heat treat turns out Greg.
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| From: PEARL DRUMS
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| Date: 06-Feb-23 |
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Not sure how you approach heat tempering. I have found that tillering the bow to about 2/3 your intended draw length makes for a better end product. When I tempered too early I would scrape/rasp away so much wood I would lose the effect.
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| From: Arvin
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| Date: 06-Feb-23 |
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Nice Pearl I’ll try to remember that!
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| From: Butch 72
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Awesome! can't wait to See it Finished.
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| From: PEARL DRUMS
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Looking dang good, Greg. Maybe get just off the fades 3-5" moving as touch more, otherwise you'll take on some mid limb set you don't want.
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Thanks guys. Pearl i usually take to much off at the fades so backed off of them this time.
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| From: wooddamon1
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Looking good! What tool are you taking wood off with? Scraper, rasp, or? The one I got into blank form didn't seem to like the drawknife...
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Damon i used my shinto saw rasp on this hhb for the most part, then i went with a scraper. It worked better than the draw knife.
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| From: Bjrogg
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Looking good. I agree with a rasp for HHB. Have to be careful with the draw knife as it likes to tear out sometimes
Bjrogg
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| From: Jed Gitchel
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Nice work Greg, I like it!
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| From: wooddamon1
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Thanks, Greg. Good luck getting it shooting!
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| From: PA Bones
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| Date: 28-Feb-23 |
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Very nice bow. Great job!
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Finished my plain Jane hhb today.
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Finished my plain Jane hhb today.2 tone
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| From: Bjrogg
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Looks pretty to me.
Looks like Jane is from a pretty nice clean piece of hop.
Don’t let her plain looks fool you. I’m sure she has some snap in her step.
Bjrogg
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| From: Jeff Durnell
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Cringe @ Brian and adjectives like snap or snappy when describing a selfbow. Don't jinx him bro :^)
Reminds me... I used to hold a lot of bowmaking seminars at my place, and every so often, as an initiation of sorts, when a new bowyer was bringing his first bow to the precarious, nerve wracking first full draw on the tillering tree, right at his climax, one of us would sneak up behind him and snap a piece of scrap cedar arrow shaft behind his head. "SNAP!" Cruel yes... still funny. Gets em every time :^)
That looks like a beaut Greg. Love that side profile and it looks good at full draw. Is that where you draw it from on the string? Just wondering. I always draw them from my string hand fulcrum and then tiller them so the limbs flex evenly. No surprises or backtracking that way.
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| From: bentstick54
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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My kind of plain Jane. Nice work.
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Jeff i tiller so the top limb is a little weaker. About 1/8" positive on the top limb seems to work for me.
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| From: Jeff Durnell
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Very good then. Carry on.
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| From: SteelyDan
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| Date: 11-Mar-23 |
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Nice job. Did it come in at the weight you wanted?
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| From: Bjrogg
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| Date: 12-Mar-23 |
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Yes Jeff maybe I should have used a different adjective.
I was thinking more snapping back.lol
Point is even though hop can be a little plain in looks. A good piece can make a good performance bow. And if she wants to dress up she can accessorize and look pretty classy too.
Bjrogg
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| From: wooddamon1
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| Date: 12-Mar-23 |
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Very nice, Greg!Good luck with it!
Jeff, that's hilarious, but I'd probably poop a little if someone did that to me.
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| From: tradslinger
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| Date: 12-Mar-23 |
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Well Greg, my Friend and Brother, she is quite the looker and hopefully the shooter. I knew that you would make a nice one out of that piece of wood. She will look very good in the blind with you this fall. You and I have come a long ways in a fairly short time, thanks to James. You are now a tree starer, checking trees out as you drive by them as you wonder if they would make a stave. You have become addicted to the wood shavings piling up on the floor around you. The tillering tree calls to you for another one to tiller. I bet the guys that you shoot with in that league are very jealous of your bows and rightly so. You had wondered about that wood and now you know. Let's see, do you have another stave that is ready to begin the next bow? Time will tell. You're gonna have to build another shed to keep them in LOL. Jerry
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| From: BRIBOWl
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| Date: 12-Mar-23 |
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Pretty Girl hope she shoots as nice as her lines.
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| From: Stickbow Felty
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| Date: 12-Mar-23 |
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Thanks everyone. Jerry i do have another ready to go, it will either be hickory or another hhb.I can hardly wait for the osage to dry.Starting to get a few staves put away.
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