I wanted to hurry and post this Happy Birthday for my hubby today, but mostly because I wanted to give a very special friend of ours a highly deserved Thank YOU for this gift...
I want to let you all know that I was floored with this note I received several months back from Mike Baker aka "Bodork" asking some questions about my hubby's spec's and preferences in woods...
This pic is just a quick shot of the tip and will be sure to have more pic's added later on.
Frank took off work today only to work more in "the shop" and I want to post before he gets in to see his gift from Mike.
I am sure he will be relaying his sentiments for this beautiful work of art....
Mike you are amazing!!! :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Happy Birthday Frank!!!!!!!!!!
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Beautiful work. Happy birthday Frank, I can already see that it's going to be a good one.
WOW!!!!! That is beautiful! Great job Mike!!
Shell you are the wife that all wives should be modeled after!!
Happy Birthday Frank!! Enjoy it Brother!!
Happy Birthday Frank, I hope you enjoy many seasons with that new bow.
Happy birthday Frank , Well done Mike :0)
Happy Bday.Hes gonna remember that gift.
Happy Birthday Frank, I hope you have a great Day. It sure was nice to talk to you the other night. We need to do that more often. By the way you have one heck of a woman there. Paul D.
WOW Shell you are a angel! And WOW again the bodork sure has a talent! Happy birthday Frank! You deserve it!
Brent
Happy Birthday Frank!! Enjoy your day with friends and family!!
Happy Birthday Frank!
Happy Birthday Pancho!! :thumbsup:
Happy Birthday My Brother. Wow what a wonderful gift for a very deserving man. Congrats Frank.
Donald
Happy Birthday Brother Frank! Now get ta shooting that beautiful work of art and give us the lowdown on her! Hope your day is filled 10-ring wishes and whitetail dreams!
Mark
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!!!
Happy Birthday Buddy !!!! ; )
Thats a jaw dropper. Happy B-day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sticshooter!!, MANY MORE TO YOU BUDDY!! :wavey: BLESS YOU ALL!!
Happy B-day!
wow! that there is right pretty!
Derek
Happy birthday Frank! May you have many more! That sure is a pretty stick!
Happy Birthday .... let's see the rest.
I jealous. Not only for the bow, but because nobody ever calls me "sweetness". Been called a few things by my exwife, but I dont remember any of them being "sweetness" :)
Happy Birthday Frank.
-Fritz
Happy Birthday Frank, and may you have many, many more.
All Right Shell Super Gift!!!
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Happy Birthday Frank. Bet you don't read this till it's too dark to shoot. :biglaugh:
Happy B-day Frank.
Happy B-day and that limb is beautiful, but you know you are being a tease Shell. Waiting for more pics...
Happy Birthday Frank!! Wow, what a beautiful gift. Shell, he's a lucky man to have a wife like you. :clapper:
Graham
Happy Birthday Frank. Wishing you many more.
WELL I am speechless! thanks guys. I really do have a awesome wife. But I also have alot of awesome Friends on here. Mike (BODORK) you did not have to do this. You are just down right GREAT!This is just a STUNNING BOW! shoots as good as she looks. I have shot it through the chono and with mu 5575 carbons she shot 188 188 190 189 . 53#29"-62" this will be my going to Sunday meeting bow. I will let the bow master tell ya all what the woods are. I will post pics later when I get back home with less sunlight. Thank you My Brother you are a true Blessing to me and my family.. even before this Gift... But you already knew that.<><
I wish you a Happy Birthday Brother Frank. Looking forward to meeting you and your lovely wife at the Coon Rapids shoot. No excuses, just be there :notworthy:
Thanks everyone for your kindest words, but this was'nt any of my doing, this was ALL Mike's idea as he just wanted to make sure with me about Frank's preferences...
This was a gift from Mike to Frank and I cannot take any of his deserved recognition, I was just blessed enough to know about it and help with any questions that the artist needed to know.
It was very exciting though to know what Mike was doing all the while :)
The moose antler overlay is absolutely gorgeous!!
Dang Shell gitit away from him, we need some more pictures! :thumbsup: Tell him it can be photoed with him holding it!
Brent
Shell, you are still to be commended for actually giving the bow to Frank and not keeping it for yourself.
Happy Birthday Frank......Whatta bow !!!!WOW!!!!!You gotta mighty good woman there also Frank....youre a blessed man ! Tim
Happy Birthday!!!
Nice Frank, just turned 42 myself. How olds is ya anyway???
Happy birthday!
Happy BDay Frank. Great looking bow there, can't wait to see the rest of it.
Happy Birthday Frank .That's some wife you have AND some bow you have there !Enjoy the day and your new bow good luck with it. Oh does Shell have a twin sister? LOL
Frank,
Happy Birthday. What a fine gift for a fine man.
Danny
Happy Birthday Frank.
Nice going Mike.
Happy Birthday!!!! :thumbsup:
Happy B'day Frank! You'll certainly remember this one :clapper:
Doc I sure will Thanks to Mike. here are a few pics. This is a awesome bow to say the least. Pics really do not do it justice at all.<>< (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/fishrofmen1/DSCN1845.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/fishrofmen1/DSCN1847.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/fishrofmen1/DSCN1852.jpg) <><
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Very deserving!
Happy Birthday!!! Sweeeeeet bow.
That Baker guy sure knows how to put a bow together!
Very nice bow! Happy Birthday Frank :goldtooth:
Absolutly beautiful!!!!!! and could not have gone to a better guy...Good for you!!!
Jake
Well done, happy birthday Frank!
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F-Manny
Happy Birthday Frank. After seeing some prior posts of Bodork's amazing work, I can't wait to see the rest of the bow. I'm sure it's every bit as beautiful as the limb picture. Nicely done Shell. You're Frank's greatest gift. I'm sure of that.
Terry
Frank, that is one awesome bow. Looks like osage and cocobola. Is that right. Those are great combinations.
Donald
PS. Looks like you shoot her good too.
Thanks Guys. Your rIght Donny thats what they are. Also as some know I have a BIG bowie with a weepinG heart cut out of the Blade. It belonged to a great friend of many on here Barb. Well Mike added a Weeping Heart to this bow which means alot to me.The work he put into this bow for me makes me feel even more unworthy of such a Gift. I will never beable to thank him enough. <><
Happy birthday, man! Sweet bow!
Lee
happy birthday bro have a real good day. sure looks like you have already. god bless you and shell. later brother HO'NEHE :archer:
Happy birthday from Michigan. What a beautiful bow.
Jon Stewart
Semper Fi
Happy birth day mate. Super looking bow that one. Only on TradGang.....
Happy Birthday from IL. Frank!!
Wow!! Again! Just checked back and saw the rest of the pics. That is absolutely beautiful!!!
Kenny
Happy birthday Frank. Mike had sent me a pic of the riser and said the tips were going to be something special. Special I guess, just beautiful. Super friend!
Now don't go gettin' all sappy Frank. And don't act like you've never done anything for me or anyone else on this site. The knife, the beltbuckle, the sealskin,(look familiar on your bow?) the antler necklace you made for my daughter,(which, by the way, she is wearing tonight) none of which you would let me pay for! Hey, I felt like I was getting way behind in the I.O.U. department.
Let me tell you and everyone else, I had tons of fun in my communications with Shell and owe her the world for being my insider. She picked your brain without letting you know what was going on and even sent me the moose antler that I stained and used for the overlay and also the bighorn sheep horn that is spliced into the tip overlays. This has been very fun for me. Frank, you and Shell are the epitome of giving and I'm proud that I can give something to you.
For the rest of the gang, the riser is osage and cocobolo with bloodwood accent stripes highlighted with curleymaple pinstripes. the limbs have actionwood cores and osage veneers with ebony and cocobolo splices toward the tips seperated by curleymaple and bloodwood. The tip overlays are cocobolo spliced with the big horn sheep horn with accents of black phenolic and bloodwood in between. they are on top of black phenolic. The overlay on the back of the riser is moose antler over black glass. The weeping heart is bloodwood inlaid into osage into cocobolo over black glass. Hopefully everything will mellow together with age.
Happy Birthday to Frank. Thanks to Shell. God bless you both, Mike
Happy Birthday dude from East Texas.... : :goldtooth:
Happy Birthday Frank awsome bow. TD.
Happy Birthday Frank!
Happy birthday Frank, ya really deserved this one too :)
WOW! Happy Birthday. Man did you get hooked up.
Happy Birthday Frank !
How many does this make ? We almost share the same one. Mine is tomorrow ...14th, starting my 42nd year.....and it feels like it. I could use (another) nap. ;)
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Beautiful bow. Have a wonderful birthday Frank.
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Have a great birthday Frank ! From the great White north!!
Happy birthday Frank,and super nice job Mike and Shell!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Well first of all, A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and wow that is a work of art. Very Beautiful Bow.
Have a great Birthday Frank, super job Mike and Shell.
Couldn't ask for a more beautiful day in the Northland to shoot that awesome Birthday present.
Oh WOW Bodork! That is just a stunning bow in every sense of the word! I'm green with envy Frank! But man you and Shell do so much for others on here that I couldn't imagine a better guy to recieve such a gift! You are truly blessed my friend! The blessings you have bestowed on others are just coming back around to ya brother!
happy b-day Frank, when I turned 40 I think the wheels fell off (I'm 43 now).
she's a looker for sure now ya just got'ta see if she can hunt!!
good luck!!!
I guess I'm a little late....But Happy Birthday Frank!! Awesome bow for a well deserving guy
Just unreal bowwork by Bodork. Great artwork, from one fine artisian to another fine artisian, and really good person. Happy Birthday, Frank, and many rich returns.
Happy B-Day Frank, that is a wall hanger bow right there (after you kill a few animals with it of course). What a beauty!! Nice job Shell and Mike. You have out done yourselfs with this one.
BTW I almost forgot to tell ya what else he sent me. Only because shell snatched it up so fast.LOL. It is a cross on a key chain ring made from horn I think and ebony. This will NOT have keys put on it. It will adorn my rearveiw mirror in my truck. It's is stunning and just shows what kind of talent God has blessed Mike with. Thanks everyone for all the kind words and wishes.<><
Happy birthday Frank,nice bow and good shooting....
Guess I missed it osomehow, but Happy Belated Birthday Frank.
Sometimes we feel extra blessed don't we?
Oh yea in case your dad didn't tell you, 40 is when things start going to hell in a hand basket..eyesite, hearing, memory and ....nevermind.
Happy B-Day Frank, you have a special lady in Shell!! Shawn
Micky I have bad eyesite and memory but THATS IT!LOL . Thanks Guys and shawn you are right on. Shell is very special to me she is my BeST friend in life.<><.<><
AMEN to THAT Ferret!! :scared: And I am ONLY 41!! :goldtooth:
Dang that is a nice looking bow, not just the woods, but the shape as well! You are one lucky dog, pal! (pup!)
Killdeer :archer:
Heck, 40ish ain't nothing. You are still a young pup Frank my friend. Again, that is one sweet bow, wish I had one.
Danny
HAPPY B-DAY Frank :clapper: :clapper:
PETE
Happy belated to a great deserving fellow! Guess the RER's will be getting jealous now.
Oh yeah - I got a FD pic of you for my pages - thanks to bodork's fantastic gift (thank you, bodork - LOL) It's on Page11 in case either of you want to take a quick peek at it . :p
Bernie your sneak! BTW your knife is really on the way this time.HAHAHA so watch the mailbox!Tom NAH I'll still shoot my RERBOWS. Maybe not for a couple of weeks .LOL<><
Happy belated birthday. Your proof, what goes around comes around.
guzzi
What Knife, Frank??? :D ;)
(You rascal - I had to do penance on my old bony knees, in front of the post Office, at high noon, for three days in a row, just to get back in their "bad" graces, never mind their good graces!)
LOL!!! Bernie I did put something in with it. And you still have something else coming soon.<><
Happy Birthday Frank from the river rat....
Well, look who poopped outta his lair! This IS special!
Killdeer :biglaugh:
VIC just seen your other post. Now that is a great Birthday present for me. Knowing your doing good. <><
Hmmmm - I don't dare say anything, Frank :p (I think the PO has my house 'n puter bugged). I'm gettin' soooooooo pair-of-noids :eek: :rolleyes:
Glad to see a post from Mr. Vic too!!!
Happy Belated Birthday Frank. :wavey:
SHHHH Berine not so loud or they will hear ya. Thannks Ron.<><
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You woke me up, Bernie.
~Postal Killdeer :saywhat:
See? I knew it .... I just knew it .... Oh, me... :(
I'm really worried now 'cause I got some feathers for the kids , and also a new tradgang sticker for my truck, in the mail today. (Thanks y'all - you know who you are.) I fear they are setting me up now - :eek:
Just kidding about the PO and the paranoia - in case anyone isn't used to me - but I am not kidding about Bodorks bow for Frank - Quite possibly one of the prettiest bows currently afloat.
Happy belated!
Happy belated birthday!!!
Way to go bodork - friends like that are few and far between.
Best to you!!!
Rich
That's a great bow. And it looks like you shoot it very well. :thumbsup:
Holy Crap! there is a little bit of madness in that bow.
Well done to the maker for a stunning piece of craftsmanship and to the reciever for impressing his deservingness of this sort of kindness by being kind himself.
kudos to you all.
Happy birthday Frank! God's rich blessings on you and your family.