What did you do today, 2015....

[fujimo]

lifes to short, and way too many good people to waste time getting mad.
thats what 2x4's and dark alleys are for   :D  
gonna be a great time"re-processing " pretty wood!

[wood carver 2]

This morning I went out and bought some bow woods. I got some small pieces of blackwood, a nice piece of pau ferro and a straight grained piece of osage for lams.
Dave.

[Krasus]

Just getting ready for my flight to Waynes. Week of fishing and bow building. Yay!

[wood carver 2]

What a day of bow building I had today!
I took that nice board of pau ferro and cut out two risers from it. Then I cut them both in half and laminated them with two thin walnut spacers and an I beam of padauk for one and an I beam of purpleheart for the other. Then I cut out core lams of padauk and purpleheart for them.
These are going to be Christmas presents for my Niece and Nephew.
Things were moving along nicely and a couple of friends dropped by to tell me that we're invited to a good buddy's milestone birthday party next weekend. After they left, I thought what am I going to give him? So I grabbed a riser from a pile of half finished ones I have, cut out a core lam, got it tapered...etc. And three and a half hours later, I have a longbow all glued up.
I can't believe I got it done so fast. ( I sure hope it turns out right, it looked good after clamping ). Luckily, I had a riser and belly lams ready to go. These parts take the longest to make and I need to get this bow shooting by Monday in order to finish it and shoot it in some before Saturday.
Happy, happy, happy.      
Dave.

[wood carver 2]

Originally posted by Krasus:
Just getting ready for my flight to Waynes. Week of fishing and bow building. Yay!

That sounds like Fun! Catch a barn door halibut!
Dave.

[Krasus]

Haha here's hoping! We're building a static tip recurve while I'm here.  Looking sick! Just started working leather for a quiver too!

[fujimo]

hey watcha doing  there krasus,fella?   :D

[BMN]

A friend had some beeswax from one of his hives he didn't know what to do with. I told him I'd take it off his hands   :D  

[wood carver 2]

Now what could you possibly use that for?            
Dave.

[canopyboy]

Very nice!

[Ken Sorg]

Cut probably a lifetime supply of Osage today! My buddy let me go onto his land and take whatever I wanted. Came out with seven 5.5 to 6ft. logs. 4 of the we're 7 to 9" dia. one 10", and a 12". Split them all but the 12",,,only halved him and will work on him tomorrow. Lot's of staves and it is an impressive sight to see. Can email a pic to someone, if you'd like to post it for me. Going back next Monday for a few small maple and black locust!

[Roy from Pa]

Ken, I love you man. LOL
I replied to your pm.

[Krasus]

Popping the static tip recurve out of the oven today and I think we will be done the quiver today to.

[fujimo]

only if yer get off MY chaise an' quit chattin' up MY wife, an' get out to the shop NOW      
pffft- these mainlanders!!!

[Krasus]

Just waiting on your math skills to do some converting lol. It's called islander speed    

[Roy from Pa]

Ken's Osage haul.

 

[Zradix]

[canopyboy]

Stopped by to bother Sweka tonight. We examined my swap bow, a new Miller bow, and an old Herter's. Then we did a little shootin'. Johnny was breaking not only the nocks, but the whole back of his arrows. So we put one up in front of his bag to see if we could finish the job.

I have to say I was impressed with how many times we hit it from distances up to a bit past 20 yards. I guess the aim small, hit small thing works. Towards the end we started aiming for the crest and JohnBoy hit it perfectly:



We rotated it 90 degress and tried to see if we could snap it still. And then in an effort not to be outdone, yours truly evened the score:



About then we figured we'd better call it a night before we started feeling bad about ourselves and went inside to have a fresh beer and play with his new puppy. Good times...

[Roy from Pa]

Sure stop and see Johnny boy and snub the ole man! That's ok I'll get even..  
Nice shooting though...

[bigbob2]

yup great shooting guys.