FIRST ANNUAL SCAVENGER BOW CHALLENGE SIGNUP THREAD

[scrub-buster]

Here you go.  They are about 30 years old.  I hope they aren't ate up with bugs.  I have some great ideas for tip overlays and a handle wrap.

 

[psychmonky]

Lmao I thought u said beams! That's just a stave you leaned up in the corner of the barn!

I guess in its simplest form a column or a post IS just a log, so if u promise it was at least supporting something it counts...but its close lol

[scrub-buster]

I'll try to get some more pictures.  That is the cornerpost.  There are maybe 4 or 5 other posts that might be usable.

[KellyG]

Ok I may have something I may try to make a take down with.

I am unsure of the wood, but it is the bottom half of staffs used to put guidons, flags and colors on. they screw together. I found a top piece. My plan if I even try is to chase a ring. Then epoxy the wood to the metal. each piece is about 4". They both have a metal bottom on them so they can be stuck in the ground. That will come off of course.  

I think the wood my be either white oak or ash. I really don't know. I will keep them long and will make it light weight. Thinking of making a the wife a bow.

We shall see.

close up just so ya could see the grain. They are really straight grained.


most of the lenght.



I will post pics of the backing if I decide to use it. I have a big roll of brown paper I have been using it to wrap and mail stuff in.

[psychmonky]

You're gettin fancy with takedowns Kelly! I love it!

[KellyG]

psychmonky,
I have seen the talent on this site, so I know I must really do something to even get into the top 10.

[wood carver 2]

Kelly, that looks like hickory or ash. It's hard to tell sometimes from a picture.
Dave.

[coaster500]

Man this is a brain scorcher....  maybe one of the leaf springs from my old pickup.... Not!!!

This is cool, still hunting

[LittleBen]

Genius, now if I can l keep myself from dismantling my neighbors Ipe deck, and his bamboo flooring. Lol only kidding, if my neighbors had that kinda money I'd have to move.

[psychmonky]

maybe not the springs....but an old wooden truckbed...or a dashboard....

I also learned today that cue balls are made of phenolic...if i can cut one apart without killing myself i may have some tip overlays.

Scott

[LittleBen]

Just today someone at my apartment complex dumped a headboard. Looks like the posts are made from solid oak, maybe enough wood for a 60" bow if I can get some glu on static tips. Now comes the akward looks of scavenging garbage in the middle of the parking lot.
Did I mention I'm angry it's oak .... why couldnt they have made it out of straight grained hickory or hophornbeam ....

[AKmud]

Originally posted by coaster500:
Man this is a brain scorcher....  maybe one of the leaf springs from my old pickup.... Not!!!

This is cool, still hunting

That's funny coaster, when I was in high school we made a crossbow out of an old Ford truck mainspring.   . We used a come along to cock it and a pelican hook for the trigger mechanism.  Turned out 3/8" rebar was about the proper spine for the bolts!

[wood carver 2]

I'll bet you could have taken a moose with that steel bow... from across a lake!
Dave.

[psychmonky]

lol a 14000 gr arrow is bound to penetrate.

[razorback]

AKmud, I just made similar comments on coasters other thread, about using the spring. Greaat minds think alike  

[rmorris]

Alright I got my Bow Swap bow finished so now I can start cutting up a snowboard and see what kind of stresses  it takes before it explodes on me. I am hoping when I cut into the snowboard all the wood grain goes from tip to tip and is not layered like plywood... Well here is to experimenting...

[psychmonky]

Yeah, I'm not sure. I know skateboards are plywood....

[coaster500]

[SEMO_HUNTER]

I'm gonna hit the dump this weekend that's down by the river below my house since the weather is suppose to break by Friday. It's either been bone chilling cold, sleet, snow, or now torential rainfall every weekend that I've had off work!    

I see some very interesting ideas going on here already that's for sure. You all are quite creative as well as talented. I might even look for an old longspring while I'm at it just in case the buffalo decide to migrate back to Missouri.  

[psychmonky]

Lmao. If you show up to Dave's house with a leafspring next weekend....