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Title: Paint ?
Post by: ranger 3 on January 15, 2010, 01:04:00 PM
What kind of paint would you use on raw hide backing. I want to dress it up Indian style.

Thanks
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 15, 2010, 02:25:00 PM
You can get craft paint from Wally World. It is water based and comes in many different colors.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: ranger 3 on January 15, 2010, 02:43:00 PM
Thanks Pat, can or should you put something over it?
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Osagetree on January 15, 2010, 03:48:00 PM
Yes a camera,, and show us pics when you're done!  :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: ranger 3 on January 15, 2010, 03:59:00 PM
Right now I'm still trying to get this recurve to a brace, but pics. coming soon.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 15, 2010, 11:19:00 PM
I would seal it with whatever you seal the bow with. Do a test first to be sure they are compatible. I used Tru-Oil on a replica of Jay Massey's Medicine Bow I made a few years ago. It had an arrow and head coming out of the handle up and down.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: ranger 3 on January 16, 2010, 08:38:00 AM
Pat I would love to see a pic. of that one or all you have painted. I need some ideas, I haven't painted one before.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 16, 2010, 10:48:00 AM
Ranger, I don't have immediate access to pics of this bow nor do I have the bow here at home. Every part of this Medicine Bow was given to me by friends. All I did was build the bow. In return I send it to the contributors to use for a while and them pass it on to the next. So far it has taken 2 deer(one with stone) and one hog. None by me. d;^)
 If I can locate pics I will post them.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: ranger 3 on January 16, 2010, 10:59:00 AM
Thanks and to anyone who has pics. of painted bows please post them.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 16, 2010, 12:48:00 PM
Well I found them on the first disc I tried.
This bow is 60" long and pulls between 45#@26" and 65#@26" depending on the RH at the time. It is hickory with 3 layers of emu sinew covered with rawhide.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/MasseyMedicineBow002.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/MasseyMedicineBow006.jpg)
 For some reason I can't get the rest to come up. I'll try again in a bit.
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 16, 2010, 12:51:00 PM
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/MasseyMedicineBow007.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/MasseyMedicineBow009.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/MasseyMedicineBow008.jpg)
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Shakes.602 on January 16, 2010, 03:42:00 PM
Looks Good to Me!! I Like the Opposing ArrowHeads! Very Interesting, bet its quite the Conversation Piece too!
Title: Re: Paint ?
Post by: Pat B on January 17, 2010, 12:43:00 AM
Thanks Shakes.
 Like I said this is a copy of a bow Jay Massey made. The design was his but it is a cool design.
 Sorry for the poor quality pics. They were some of the first dig pics I loaded into a computer ...and not very well either.
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