I am going to show you Mannny's "Hula Girl" in action in her new home in NC. I've had her about a week and a half but she needed to acclimate (taking sunbaths in our climate). I also made a purty white, black, and yellow Flemish Twist string, with fur strips for her. I have grown to love her even more during this time of just handling her. Yesterday I served and put nocks on the string and it was time for our first shooting foray together. I'll tell you about that later. Please remember I was nervous as a teenager on a first date and we were just getting used to each other. I will post more pics latter but here are a few teasers this morning.
From Hawaii to NC:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/HAtoNC2.jpg)
Contemplation:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/Contemplate1.jpg)
Pick A Spot:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/Contemplate2.jpg)
Full Draw1:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/FD1.jpg)
Brace After Release:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/BraceafterRelease.jpg)
See ya's later with some more pics.
That man can make a bow!
Good on you Bernie!!!
now where's your grass skirt?LOL!!<><
Yeah Frank, I was afraid there were going to be pictures of Bernie in a grass skirt in here! :scared:
Nice bow Bernie, looks like Manny did another stellar job.
Nice looking bow Bernie....nice to see you in jeans again :D
Neat bow...good form...a winning combo :thumbsup:
Y'all got that right! (Skirts - of any kind - are a once a half century thing - LOL)
nice looking bow, but i think a grass skirt with a few clumps of those beautiful blue hydrangeas added to the mix would really be something. :scared:
:clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
F-Manny
Bernie After taking a lQQk at your last pictures I was alil nervous opening up this post. Thought I'd see a man wearing a grass skirt shooting a bow.
But since we all know your a man's man, glad I did. Great lQQking bow. It's got the lines of the Alaskan longbow I like. Good luck.
It is my true pleasure to add to Manny's earlier thread on this bow. (The bow means a great deal to me, as do you guys opinions of it, and of friend Manny.) (No grass, of any kind, either! :D )
Some detail pics of this fine Guava bow from Manny:
Hanging:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/Hang1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/Hang2.jpg)
Zebrawood Tip Overlay(s):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/ZebrawoodTip.jpg)
Natural Hemp Handle Wrap (& Flemish Twist String by Bernie):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/HempWrap.jpg)
Full Draw 6:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/FD6.jpg)
Brace After Release 3:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/BraceafterRelease3.jpg)
15 Yard Results:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/15yards.jpg)
As I said, First time out. I find I have to Cant well, and still pick a spot well to the right, to hit where I would like to, with pretty much all of my wood primitive/lam/self bows. Maybe I'll work around that some day :rolleyes: . The arrows you see with the "tracers" on them are Ramin dowel shafts (in light spine) that I made. The three with Fl green nocks and feathers are alum (shhhh - just to "see how she liked them"). AND the one right smack in the center, with the tracer, is a Cane arrow in light spine I made - it flew like a dart. (I gotta make some more light spined Canes - LOL)
Let me say my "go-to-bow" is a Adcock ACS and it is a fast little rascal that I shoot fairly well (when I pay attention ;) ) so I have an idea of fast, smooth, and hard hitting. That having been said, this "Hula Girl", my Guava Bow from Manny, is a fast spitting , smooth shooting, hit like a veritable Frieght Train, full of authority bow - and I love shooting it, as well as love it period. Too bad everybody couldn't shoot it (or one like it.) Thanks for looking. Maybe some more pics from our first outing, later, if you want. :)
Very, very nice Bernie!! Congrats on being the owner of a Manny-masterpiece!!
You need to mount a bobble-head Hula Girl on the riser like a stabilizer and take a few pics. Cool bow for a cool customer.
LOL - Think I'll pass on that one - though I remember those on a lot of Dashboards back in the fifties, or was it forties - :confused:
Very cool, Bernie! And I have to say, that I love the bow's name. It definately shows personality!
Claudia
Bernie, you should add a little grass skirt at the bottom of the handle wrap. :D
They used to use feathers before the grass started growing on the Volcanic rock there - maybe I'll put one of my feather wind indicators on her . :archer:
Thanks, Claudia, I really think the name fits her, now that I've had her here awhile.
Looking good Bernie. I am getting kind of old and "crooked" perhaps I should get me such a bow. Bue--.
LOL - Maybe, Bue, I've got two (Osage "Sneaky Snake" from Dano and now "Hula Girl" from Manny) and I love them both. It fascinates me how they shoot, being so crooked. Dano also made Osage bows for my two (real young) Great Granddaughters and one of those is snakey in the lower limb also.
QuoteOriginally posted by ber643:
...(Skirts - of any kind - are a once a half century thing - LOL)
Glad that's in the closet. :bigsmyl:
Sweet lookin' bow.
Yep, did it once for a Moose lodge "All Male Wedding" in my first fifty, and this time for St. Jude Kids covers my second fifty. :thumbsup:
It is indeed a "sweet thang", Mac.
Thanks, Bernie, I was going to ask you about the other two or three times you had done that. :)
That is one awesome piece of wood, it took a special touch to free that dancer. Waltz on!
Killdeer :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Yes, very cool Bernie...that is one slender little sexy Hula-Girl. Love it! Have a ball Bernie! and thanks for sharin your excitement...its contagious ya-know!
Bite your tongue, Killie - Twice! Well, that one time in CA, when I had to use a disguise, because the military didn't allow us to attend the Flower Children's "get togethers" upstate doesn't hardly count does it? Besides, you promised you wouldn't tell about that :( ;) :D
Thank you Randy, it is really nice to know that my excitement comes through, and is contagious - I like that :jumper:
:bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: I'm surely glad you like her, great to see pictures of you shooting and enjoying the bow, The handle might be a bit tricky to get used to it for a bit, but from the first bunch of arrows you shot it seems you doing great right of the bat :clapper: :clapper:
Thank you Manny, I do hope to "tighten up" more as I relax more with her and keep my mind more on what I'm doing - LOL
Here is a couple more Full Draw Pics:
One from the same side:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/FD5.jpg)
And a couple from the other side ( with my shooting tower in the background):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/FD3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/FD4.jpg)
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Right now "Hula Girl" is in second place for Manny in the June Self Bow of The Month contest at primitivearcher.com. Please go and vote for your favorite - some fine bows.