Some of you will recognize me from posts in other forums I have dipped my toe in since trying to build a few bows. It has only been a few weeks; hard to
believe my ninth build started is in tiller stage and tenth is in floor tiller stage. After the first two, I have always had more than one going; I don't
always have the right mindset for detail work. Out of the 10, I have 5 target shooters, 3 broken and 2 in progress. I called them target shooters because I
haven't finished (without breaking) a bow strong enough for hunting yet.
Besides making bows, I do a fair number of ancient wood crafts mostly revolving around carving and turning to make musical intruments, tools, weapons and furniture. I am not hung up on methods of work not including electricity, though I do prefer the old stuff even then - I have an early 60s tablesaw, a 50s jointer and an 80s bandsaw, all cast iron with quiet humming motors (not the aluminum top, plastic base stuff powered with blender motors they try to pass off as tools these days). My lathe is recent, but the price was right and it met my criteria for precision, cast iron and quiet motors. Anyway, that is a major reason this forum feels right; a lot of like minded "do it the old way unless that's just beyond rediculous" folks.
I have a bit of hickory, access to a whole lot more and right now I have a few persimmon blanks as well. My two in progress bows, which I will probably post for help/comments in separate threads, are persimmon.
This is my favorite picture of a bow I made so far (most of my bows are for kids; I have 4):
-Andy
Besides making bows, I do a fair number of ancient wood crafts mostly revolving around carving and turning to make musical intruments, tools, weapons and furniture. I am not hung up on methods of work not including electricity, though I do prefer the old stuff even then - I have an early 60s tablesaw, a 50s jointer and an 80s bandsaw, all cast iron with quiet humming motors (not the aluminum top, plastic base stuff powered with blender motors they try to pass off as tools these days). My lathe is recent, but the price was right and it met my criteria for precision, cast iron and quiet motors. Anyway, that is a major reason this forum feels right; a lot of like minded "do it the old way unless that's just beyond rediculous" folks.
I have a bit of hickory, access to a whole lot more and right now I have a few persimmon blanks as well. My two in progress bows, which I will probably post for help/comments in separate threads, are persimmon.
This is my favorite picture of a bow I made so far (most of my bows are for kids; I have 4):
-Andy
