You might be a Tradgang Bowyer if...

[Johan van Niekerk]

Originally posted by kodiakkid:
you blow your nose and it's yellow

Hehehe     Now THIS one is definately me! However, its not yellow. Its a load of other woodrelated colors tho!

[red hill]

If you take your bows to class and draw illustrations on the board to show your students what you've been up to...

[scrub-buster]

1.  Every where you go, people ask why you stare at trees.

2.  You go to sleep planning the next days progress on the bow you are building.  Honest truth, I woke up standing in my workshop downstairs one night at 2:30 am.

3.  You have staves stashed everywhere.

4.  You ask every one you know to save deer legs and turkey wings.

5.  Your favorite store is 3rivers.

[walkabout]

you get disapointed when you hear "tiller" and it doesnt pertain to bow wood
you see trees blown down by a storm in a local neighborhood and say " be a good time to go looking for bow wood"(got hit bad locally by a storm, neighborhoods are in bad shape)

[gudspelr]

Loving this thread....cracking me up  


Jeremy

[Rain Man]

If someone can tell exactly where you've gone by the trail of wood shavings falling off your jeans...

[Shaun]

You reach for change and come out with sawdust and bark.

[WINDTALKER]

If you are constantly searching other threads on how your bow should look or how to fix your latest error in an attempt to save all the work you've done

[DVSHUNTER]

Originally posted by Rain Man:
If someone can tell exactly where you've gone by the trail of wood shavings falling off your jeans...

Lol, man does my wife get mad when I come in after the shop

[fish n chicks]

Originally posted by kodiakkid:
you blow your nose and it's yellow

I just shot purpleheart dust out of my nose from laughing at that one!!

And the ones about the sawdust are true to their core as well.

And yes, I can't stop looking at trees anymore either!

How about when you'd trade a perfectly good 6-pack of budweiser for the wings of a dead turkey!?

[Leo L.]

Originally posted by scrub-buster:
4.  You ask every one you know to save deer legs and turkey wings.

This one is all me!!

Great thread!

[Johan van Niekerk]

Every pair of pants you own have a glue botch on them somewhere...

"I'm just quickly going to check something in the workshop, so no need to change from my work clothes" usually ends as half a night working on a bow wearing your "sunday best"  :D

[Johan van Niekerk]

you've spend an entire day at a lumber yard checking individual planks over and over and then left not buying any. Which frustrates the crap outt the salesman who KNOWS you'll be back within the week to repeat the whole exercise in case you "missed a good one"  :D

[Bruce Prosser]

You can't go out to eat and see all of the woodworking without thinking, wow that one would make a bow.

Have a hard time saying no when someone brings you a free log even if the grain is twisting around it.

You have graduate level homework to do and still find yourself scraping a stave.

Your garage is full of split staves and boards and there is no car in it.

[Bruce Prosser]

You have a row of osage trees growing in your garden alongside of the greenbeans.

[Bruce Prosser]

Neighborhood kids come to your house so that you can refletch their arrows.

[Mudd]

Not even yard tool handles escape the possibility of become your latest attempt at getting another bow built.

Hint: check out the post hole digger handles the next time you hit a hardware store..lol

God bless,Mudd

[OBX]

You got a nice stave for your wife...... and consider it a good trade.

[b.glass]

You are maybe a little self conscious when looking for good arrow shafts in the dowel section or looking for good boards for kids bows at Lowes.

You wonder if people think you're wierd.

[ozarkcherrybow1]

This is a great thread! I guess I'm guilty of all of the above. Here is one I have'nt seen yet:
Your wife keeps nagging you about all the yellow shavings tracked through the house!
You make too much of a mess starting the wood stove with your bow shavings.
There is no room for cars in the garage, because of too many staves and bow tools.
The park Ranger questions you why you're hanging out in the rivercane patch!
   Terry