Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Nessy - I have never shot an English Yew bow, but have admired them. The closest I have had is one of similar construction made of Oregon Myrtle. I have actually reduced the number of bows around here. Some Grayling Bears have found new homes. Sending away some old friends stung a bit, but too many for my beat up condition.
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Been shooting some Sitka Spruce arrows lately....very nice
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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I whacked a chipmunk once ...with an arrow...but didn’t take a pic. Nice shootn K Snow !
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Sitka spruce is my favorite wood for arrows and guitar tops.
I shoot recurves and longbows. My favorites are Assenheimer, Blacktail, Wes Wallace, Caribow, and of course Grayling era and older Bear bows.
Self bows are great but mine never last.
Wallace - great success! Great snaky cane shaft too! Did you knap the head?
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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64" over all. 45# at 28". 2" wide for most of its length then tapering to 1" at the tips. True to the nature of sugar maple it took a lot to get it stained. The tamerack arrows are fletched with wild turkey feathers from turkeys I've shot. Zwicky two blade broad heads. I have a couple arrows with judo points some place too, lol. Never did get around to staining and varnishing the shafts. Hasn't been a problem but then again I don't like bowhunting in the rain! Had a nettle bow string on it for awhile but went hybrid primitive/modern with a spider-wire fishing line string (made a huge difference in speed)....same with a number of arrows that were self nocked but settled on the modern snap nocks. On my bucket list is to learn how to flint knapp. Would be awesome to take a deer with a stone point! I don't hardly get time to practice any longer and pretty much crossbow hunt nowadays if I get out at all to bowhunt.
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Awesome! Where are you at and what club/group you with in that pic with the shaving horses in the background?
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Was at a district 5 or 6 summer rondevous (outside of Marshfield a ways) over a decade ago where a guy was working on an iron wood bow. Was also a guy flint knapping there at the time too.
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Awesome! Where are you at and what club/group you with in that pic with the shaving horses in the background? I am in Sheboygan County. The shooting pic was at Marshall, MI about five years ago, that event hasn't happened in a few years. The pic with the shave horses is at the WI traditional archer's bowjam in New Berlin. We teach self bow making there for two days each April. This year's event was last weekend. The table full of staves are all mine that I use for teaching the various steps in the process.
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Re: Making a bow from 100 yo fence post
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Fantastic effort and success keeping traditional archery alive. I used to spend time all around looking for points and quarrying some beautiful multicolored flint from the private land adjacent to the famous Flint Ridge here in Ohio. A goal was to take a deer with a home made self bow, arrow shaft of my crafting, fletched with turkey feathers from a turkey I hunted, and hafted myself with a stone point I made. Now too beat up and injured to do all that. I may use a stone point made by a real craftsman of ages gone by. This is a photo of a turkey I took on opening day.
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