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in reply to: Bok report; The American Longbow #164361

I’ve made a bunch of bows and it’s really not that hard, just time consuming.  I’ve got one I need to do an oops report on one of these days.

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in reply to: Grass carp / White Amur ??? #164360

As with any gov. agency you will probably get a third opinion on the regs and be even more confused.  Don’t give them any ideas about big game tags, especially here in Kansas.

Here in Kansas if you have nuisance issues with sparrows or starlings on your property you have to have a hunting license to kill them.  As money hungry as they are I’m really surprised they didn’t put mice and rats on the list too.

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in reply to: Very Short Draw Length and Form??? #164207

I’m about the same height and my draw in around 25-26″.

Some pictures of your shooting form would tell a lot.

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in reply to: Hot new way to hurt myself #163968

I had a similar occurrence happen once.  I always clean the inside of my field points with acetone before gluing them on the shafts.  I use a Q-tip to do this and didn’t notice part of the cotton tip had stayed in the point one time.  I put hot melt glue on the shaft, put the point on, and heat it over the stove flame.  A loud pop from the trapped acetone igniting sent the point sailing across the kitchen.  Took me a minute to figure out what happened.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163884

We’re headed to Texas tomorrow for a family reunion/fishing trip(me and two cousins).  When I get back I’ll see if I can find some of the wild string pictures I have and post them.  I’ve also got a learn from your mistake bow (almost) build I’ll post later.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163815

The picture must have faded out.

I don’t think the string picture is a camera limitation.  The ones I took were with a Nikon D7200 that I have used to take thousands of BMX pictures (Bicycle Motocross) and other shots.  I’ll have to look through the files and see if I can locate a couple.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163563

I have taken several pictures like that at OJAM.  It makes you wonder how the string stays on the bow.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163552

I hung some 12 and 16 ounce soda bottles from tree limbs in my yard and shoot at them with flu-flus.  Any little breeze has the moving around and makes for a lot of challenging shots.

My granddaughter likes to shoot her bow and after a few shots at the 2D turkey she always wants to shoot the bottles.  Her first shot usually hits the string.  That shows me she is concentrating on a smaller spot instead of looking at the whole turkey.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163542

I did get some rain last night.  Heard some thunder about 1am and then heard rain falling for about 30 seconds.  That was all.

At least the wind slowed down a little bit this morning.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163531

Windy here too.  20-30 south winds with higher gusts.  And we need some rain.

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163332

It’s done Ray.  The last pictures in the original post was re-hairing the bow.  That was the last part of the project I did right after putting the new strings on the bow.

I’m working on another project now and will have a set of pictures of learning from a mistake on yet another project.

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163314

From the research I’ve done most violins are made from Tiger Maple on the back, sides, and neck and tight grained Spruce is the choice for the belly.

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163297

That screw you see in the back is what caused the split.  I used some epoxy and clamped it two ways pulling the two halves together and also against the base of the neck.  Then, since the upper bout had fallen off it let me put epoxy along the joint inside for added strength.

No, I can’t play it but I sure wish I could.  My cousin’s granddaughter has an interest in learning how to play it.

They are planning a family get together in Topeka sometime in July possibly.  I will probably set up my video camera when I give it back to them.

A couple of more shots of the case.  It was made of Spruce by a company called GSB.

This shows one of the denim shirt reinforcing strips and clamps and weights to hold everything in line.

The top of the case.

The fingerboard was actually four pieces of wood.  The main body of it is Spruce and then the top and sides were added.  Possibly Ebony.  Ebony is used because it is smooth, good looking, and will last a long time.  Yeah, it is very pricey.   Any hardwood will work and I chose White Oak because it is more non porous and I have a bunch of it.

Old and new.

 

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163274

Since I really needed four hands I made a simple jig to clamp the bow in.

Then you shave the wedge down to fit in the tip.

Then you wedge the hair into the bow tip.

And trim the wedge flush with the plate.

Since the hair is put in ‘backwards’ it needs to be clamped to form it to go down the bow.  It was a two hour job to get it to this point.

The next day you measure and tie the hair to fit in the frog.  I wonder why it was named that??

After that you add some mild heat to shrink the hair and make it all a more uniform length.

It’s been a long journey from the first of December to today March 20 but Gt-Grandpa’s old fiddle will make a tune once again.  A lot of the techniques I use in making bows and arrows helped me in this restoration and I learned some new things by doing this project for the family.

 

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163270

The finger board had fallen off of the neck and it had grooves worn into it from many years of play.

So I decided it needed a new one.  I took some White Oak that I had salvaged from a large shipping skid at work and started work on it.  Lots of  carving and work with a cabinet scraper got me down to the right shape and size.

A coat of black stain and it’s ready to go.

A new set of strings made the job complete.

Now the final part.  Re-hairing the bow.

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