MN bowbuilding weekend pictures

Holm-Made · June 10, 2007, 06:57:00 PM

Here are some pictures from the bow building weekend held at my place this weekend. People showed up early on Friday and it started a whirlwind of bow building activity as everyone had their projects they wanted to get done. Things couldn't have worked out better with the weather, people, knowledge shared, ect.

Great group of guys. I enjoyed their company, thanks. Chad

work area

Half rack with homemade lam grinder

Buck snort gettin er done

Half rack and Badlands

Holm-Made · June 10, 2007, 07:02:00 PM

Brian making arrow shafts

Coach Dave (aka skunkman)

Garrett's recurves

Some guys had to take their projects home before we got a chance to take this picture. This is a sampling of the bows that were created this weekend.

W.Tim · June 10, 2007, 08:14:00 PM

looks like you Guy's had a "large time", Great pic's

Bucksnort101 · June 10, 2007, 09:32:00 PM

First of all, I'd like to thank Chad for the great get together. Also for the patience in guiding in the building of a lam bow (He did most of the work, but I learned a great deal.
Weather was excellent and everyone had a great time.
Here are some pics of the bow I eneded up with. I'll need to do some more shaping, and finishing touches, but it looks beautiful so far. Western Red Cedar limbs over Bamboo, Burgundy Rosewood Dymondwood and Bocote riser. Riser has neat finger grooves and a thumbrest built on.

Fresh out of the cooker:

Overlays, tips, and thumbrest glues up, yes there is a bow amonst all those clamps:

Back of bow, nice Cedar, thank you Chad:

Riser:

Thumbrest side:

The magic BowTree (with some slingshots thrown in:

Great weekend, made some new friends and learned a lot of bowbuilding tips. Thanks to all.

SOS · June 10, 2007, 09:54:00 PM

Man'o live! You all got farther on your take downs in one weekend than I have in 3 weeks. Looks like a blast!

Scooter Trash · June 10, 2007, 10:06:00 PM

Looks like everyone had a good time.

Any of those bows gonna make it to the Coon Rapids shoot.

kennym · June 10, 2007, 10:07:00 PM

Man those TD's have some radical lookin limbs!!Good work guys!

Bucksnort101 · June 11, 2007, 12:11:00 AM

Scooter, second one from the left will probably show up at Rapids for a string fitting. Not sure of any of the others?

V-Archer · June 11, 2007, 05:35:00 AM

Hi Chad,

Very nice pictures and I guess a great weekend for those guys. I wish something over here in the Netherlands could be organised.

Thanks for sharing.

V-Archer

Crooked Stic · June 11, 2007, 06:22:00 AM

I see a lot of talent there. Thanks for sharing.

warden415 · June 11, 2007, 08:42:00 AM

Very cool post, great pictures also. I enjoy seeing the hands on stuff on here. Steve

Holm-Made · June 11, 2007, 10:41:00 AM

Skunkman made this stave horse that Brian is using. You can't tell by the picture but it has a tractor seat.

Jigs for cutting radius' on the bandsaw made by BadLands

Eat on the fly, theres work to do.

HalfRack · June 11, 2007, 10:51:00 AM

How often can you get not one but two experienced bowyers, each with totally different established designs and tons of knowhow to help newbies out...

What a great group of guys in a beautiful northwoods setting, can't thank Chad enough for hosting this and Badlands for all his expertise as well. The campfire bow deign/hunting story sessions were a hoot.

I'll post some of my pics soon.

-Mike

bentpole · June 11, 2007, 04:36:00 PM

Hey looks like you folks had a great productive weekend!.Hey Bucksnort your bow looks like it could be a Centaur or a Morrison! Very nice!

Todd Weldon · June 11, 2007, 04:49:00 PM

Wow!! That looks like a Mini MoJam or OJam. Really cool. Way to go. And thanks to the moderators for leaving this on th Pow Wow thread even though it looks like an organized event.

Badlands · June 11, 2007, 06:59:00 PM

A big thanks to all of you for a great weekend, and a special thanks to you Chad for your awsome hospitality. You knocked yourself out making sure that everyone had a quality experience and I for one realy appreciated it.

Don't sell yourself short Mike. We all learned a lot from you too, with your home made lamination grinder and home made carbon strips.

Brad

Bucksnort101 · June 11, 2007, 11:20:00 PM

Bentpole, that bow if off from Chad's form. Have only put a few arrows through it, but feel great and sends an arrow downrange with authority.
Chad was definately a busy man all weekend.
Lam grinder, radius jigs, and the self bow bench were all cool too.

Holm-Made · June 12, 2007, 01:47:00 AM

PM me if you forgot any of the following items: camo stool
3 pieces black fiberglass
rubber sanding block
Brad you left a cocobolo riser block

Chad

Badlands · June 12, 2007, 09:03:00 AM

Yup
The glass, sanding block and riser block were mine.
I've just started unpacking, but so far I have your carpenters square, a disc sander and one of your tape measures.
No worries, we'll deal with it some day.

Bucksnort101 · June 12, 2007, 10:14:00 AM

I'll have to double check, but the camo stool may be mine. Can you tell if it is the triagle shaped Gander Mountain stool?