TG BOW SWAP 2012 (pics and post)

[LeeNY]

Awesome bow Kenny, great job!

[fujimo]

sorry LeeNY.
time to try again.

[broketooth]

           

[broketooth]

as if you couldn't guess , something went wrong. i just broke 2" of of the tip if my stave in my quest to make a recurve. i dont know what went wrong was my stave to dry ? i completely saturated 8" of the tip with olive oil and took my time heating it. i used very gentle pressure , hoping gravity would do its job, all i could hear was craaaaaaaaaaaacccckkkkk.          

[Goose Gossett]

Someone's trade bow is famous!  It might be one of the bows in the picture with a bunch of 4th graders.  I'll see if I can get the press release to go along with the bow.  

[soopernate]

Kenny I hate seeing your bow...I keep shorting out my keyboard.  Supersweet and I know whoever gets it will be totally stoked to zip arrows through it.  Man I hope its me...

[LeeNY]

Ruddy sorry about your bow! Seems to be today's theme. I'm getting right back at it later. I've got a lot of draw knifing to do.

[wood carver 2]

Goose, that's not very nice teasing like that.    BTW, is the gnarly bow on the far right a true centre shot?
Kenny,WOW!!!! I think you should have the paramedics on hand to revive the recipient when it's delivered.
There are some seriosly nice bows being built this year. Here are a couple of pictures of what I hope will be my trade bow.

[wood carver 2]

This bow is a bamboo/walnut tri lam with a walnut riser. The second pic. hopefully shows the grain in the riser. It came from a pretty nice piece of wood. I don't know how that other thing got into my picture.    
Hopefully, this one doesn't blow up.    
Dave.

[scottm]

What Can I say Kenny!Awsum!!!I cant wait to see finish on that one wood carver 2!

[Pat B]

Beautiful full draw bend on that bow Kenny. Real sweet!
 There are some really nice bows being made for this trade. Glad I'm part of it.

[SportHunter]

Originally posted by broketooth:
as if you couldn't guess , something went wrong. i just broke 2" of of the tip if my stave in my quest to make a recurve. i dont know what went wrong was my stave to dry ? i completely saturated 8" of the tip with olive oil and took my time heating it. i used very gentle pressure , hoping gravity would do its job, all i could hear was craaaaaaaaaaaacccckkkkk.                      

You may want to try boiling the tips for 30-40 min then bending, worked for me on my recent hickory bow. Then it dried for a week before going back at it. I tried dry heat before with a heat gun & oil and heard a crack as well, thats why i switched to boiling.

[KellyG]

LeeNY and Ruddy sorry to hear that. Woodcarver that is going to be a sweet bow.

[Nim-rod]

I've experienced cracking with dry heat as well and this last one I tried steaming and walla...perfect results! I'm never going back to dry heat for recurving. This was on hickory BTW.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Shoot Dang! I go to NC on a road trip to James Parker's and come back to three or four pages.

Now that I'm caught up I think I'm gonna hitn the hay

[canopyboy]

Holy smokes.  I go outta town for a few days (I only left on Friday), and it takes me the better part of an hour to get caught up.  I found myself wondering if I had missed pd's shipment and glad that Kenny hadn't shipped yet so I could be home when it shows up!  And then some of these other ones taking shape are just as cool or cooler.

I just can't believe the progress this year.  And the rate at which the thread is growing.  How many pages were we at by the 1st of February last year?

[wood carver 2]

Originally posted by KellyG:
Woodcarver that is going to be a sweet bow.

Kelly, I sure hope so. I already blew one up.    
I roughed out the grip and arrow pass this evening. and now I need to get a string for it. I'm praying like crazy that this one makes it.
The bar is set really high now. There are so many great bows.
Dave.

[JamesV]

Kelly.............

Has anyone shipped yet? I got pics. if I can get the boss lady to post them for me and I still got 6 foot of PVC left............OOPS.

James

[Dan Landis]

I've been out for a day and a half, a lot to catch up on.  Kenny, Wow!!!, Goose the one with the big hole sure looks neat.  Rudy & Lee I feel your pain, I blew one up yesterday also....Dan

[D]

Dang I hate to hear about the bows breaking.  I put my number 2 in the form a little bit ago.  I hope to goodness that it comes out better than the last did.  Wait til tomorrow and see what happens.  Now that I think about it I think I'm going to go check it.  I probably won't get any sleep tonight worring about it after the first one was only worthy of going in the fire.  Wood Carver I like the looks of it so far.