2013 Annual Bow Swap

[PEARL DRUMS]

Glue the splinter down with GOOD CA glue. Then rawhide back it while wrapping it over the edges to the belly. You'll never hear from it again.

[SportHunter]

Sounds good Pearl, any CA glue recommendation? Need to order some rawhide. Who carries good rawhide? If this works out I may have a great reason to use my set of bull snake skins.
Backing with hickory would be good but I like the idea of wrapping over the sides since this is near the edge.

[PEARL DRUMS]

I use Loctite Professional exclusively. Ive tried 3-4 others and I prefer this. It dries clear and is incredibly strong. Id suggest using the classifides to get some rawhide strips. Get whitetail rather than beef. Beef is very thick and would require sanding to thin it.

[SportHunter]

Great, thanks for the help!

[canopyboy]

Ben, where the heck are those pics?

[LittleBen]

Pictures on the knife first. Bow will need to wait. I'm literally swamped with work.

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

Wow!!!!! Stunning craftsmanship

[Dan Landis]

If the bow looks anything like the knife I'd say you hit the double jackpot.  Beautiful work for sure.

[Roy from Pa]

Awesome knife, Ben... Send her to me:)

[SportHunter]

I need to play the lottery today because the most beautiful golden osage bow showed up at my house today and I must have said this thing is KILLER 20 times.....

A great big THANKS!!! to Curt (Primitivesniper66) for an AWESOME bow that was more than worth waiting on. This bow will be in the field with me in October.      











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[bigbob2]

Beautiful knife, and terrific bow.

[KellyG]

Ok ben's address snapfo was all me. I am really glad he got it. Great bow j and sniper. Congrats to sport and ben. That should bring us down to 6 needing bows. I will get a better up date once back in ks

[razorback]

Still working on mine. Should have a good swing at it this weekend. !@#$%^&* will get a good bow. Sorry for the delay.

[SportHunter]

I'll be working on bow #3 this week while waiting for rawhide backing to get here for #2.

[Roy from Pa]

That bow is awesome....

[red hill]

Envious of that knife! Man!

I absolutely love the black handle/fade area on that osage bow!

Beautiful work, guys!  

[SportHunter]

The rawhide showed up today so I used loctite 420 on the crack and will be doing the rawhide backing monday, stay tuned...

[DVSHUNTER]

Excellent knife and bow. Reminds me I need to order more black dye.

[BrushWolf]

Beautiful  knife and bow!!!

[John Scifres]

Sporthunter, that is not a good piece of wood for a bow.  Wood choice is everything in wooden bows.  I'd not trust any fix on that one short of a full wooden backing.  I don't think rawhide is gonna do it.  Sorry.