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Title: Out of season
Post by: Ratdog68 on May 06, 2010, 09:01:18 PM: Last June, I was in the area of CleElum and was doing some target shooting with some buddies of mine. I brought along a T/C Cherokee .45 cal. smoke pole. Another adventure while there was to stave hunt. Found a nice Vine Maple for a stave for a bow... while there... saw this ol' girl sneakin' around. I'd hit it !!!

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FBlackPowder%2FShooting%2FJune09%2FDoe003.jpg%3Ft%3D1273204690&hash=75c4ab64d3710c552c5faa267d6cd48a0eac67cf)
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: boneaddict on May 06, 2010, 09:17:53 PM: COOL. How'd that bow turn out?
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: Ratdog68 on May 06, 2010, 09:55:07 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on May 06, 2010, 09:17:53 PM
COOL. How'd that bow turn out?

Well... LOL... It got cut to rough shape (kinda snaky), and has been clamped to a form for almost a year now as it dries. It was (inspite of the snaky shape... which I like) a horizontally oriented stalk... so it has some NICE "natural" reflex that showed up immediately upon cutting, and scraping to a consistent growth ring. My buddy is the skilled bowyer, so I'm more or less on "standby" until he's in the mood to make bows so I can get busy. Me thinks it's gonna make for a nice 45# or so selfbow. I'm planning on backing it with some rattle snake skins I have for just a project. I'm glad I'm not in a hurry to build it. :)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FArchery%2FVineMapleSelfBow%2FStavePrep%2FStaves.jpg%3Ft%3D1273207663&hash=27015ff32d55971dac34e2cc5f4dfa60fbe803ec)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FArchery%2FVineMapleSelfBow%2FStavePrep%2FMyStave.jpg%3Ft%3D1273207722&hash=64a6ab5eef3d2b2283bba91546d6f9963513c8f0)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FArchery%2FVineMapleSelfBow%2FStavePrep%2FWidthCut001.jpg%3Ft%3D1273207779&hash=4c11d300ba9042c2cc7d5217e3d98f86dcef85e0)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FArchery%2FVineMapleSelfBow%2FStavePrep%2FWidthCut004.jpg%3Ft%3D1273207827&hash=3db4fc153a47692fed6d100057dd4d91d24c74cf)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi677.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv134%2FRatdog68%2FArchery%2FVineMapleSelfBow%2FStavePrep%2FGotReflex001.jpg%3Ft%3D1273207953&hash=4416d49e850459c9636c946a361990eec8d14c57)
This is the natural reflex the stave is showing before going into the form for curing.

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This is how it's sat for close to a year now. The easy part is done... now that it's dry... it's gonna be a BEAR to work with... HARD as nails. But, I'm glad I got it to where I did while it was green/wet.

A guy in the neighborhood cut down a bunch of Black Locust... and I got a couple of decent pieces of that too. LOL So many projects... so little time to work on 'em. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: B.G.hunter on May 06, 2010, 09:58:18 PM: wow that is cool!!! :o
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: Ratdog68 on May 06, 2010, 11:13:25 PM: Quote from: B.G.hunter on May 06, 2010, 09:58:18 PM
wow that is cool!!! :o

Thanks... now, if I could just find a shot like that during hunting season. LOL :P
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: zackmioli on May 07, 2010, 08:51:02 AM: cool picture and an even cooler project!
Title: Re: Out of season
Post by: NWTFhunter on May 10, 2010, 01:31:30 PM: Very nice to see how you do that !