St. Judes BBY build along? IT'S DONE!! Pics included

wingnut · February 01, 2006, 08:05:00 AM

Well does John have it yet?

LOL

Mike

horseapple · February 01, 2006, 08:10:00 AM

Mike, you know me:) It'll get there when it gets there:)

wingnut · February 01, 2006, 09:03:00 AM

Hey as project coordinator, that is not acceptable behavior. Do I need to give your wife a call and explain how you are holding up an effort that will benefit sick kids?

LOL

Mike

Tom Leemans · February 01, 2006, 09:07:00 AM

Wow! When it gets to me, I better work fast.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 01:26:00 PM

JD says the bow is in the mail....so I should see it later this week. Thought we could go ahead and get ready for it.

Will post some pics later.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 01:27:00 PM

We'll start by sorting thru the horn pile, then splitting them on the bandsaw.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 01:29:00 PM

Pile of horn after being split.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 01:31:00 PM

Sometimes you can discover cracks in the horn that are not noticeable from the outside.
We won't use anything but the best horn we have for this special bow.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 01:32:00 PM

This is what I'm looking for. Fresh horn that is nice and clean inside.

More later today if I can.....

wingnut · February 07, 2006, 01:43:00 PM

Cool, that's a dandy horn. Heck if I got any of the quality I wouldn't have switched to buff horn.

Mike

Lost Arra · February 07, 2006, 01:52:00 PM

John: what kind of horn is that?

Dano · February 07, 2006, 02:37:00 PM

Unicorn.

Tom Leemans · February 07, 2006, 02:58:00 PM

You sure? Looks like narwhale to me.

I'm just impressed that John has a horn pile

kyle · February 07, 2006, 04:40:00 PM

Dano said unicorn....bwahh haahh ha ha ha LMAO!!

Carbon Caster · February 07, 2006, 05:58:00 PM

I shot a unicorn once, but the horn was only about 4 inches long. Mighty fine eating though. I would love to try working with horn one day. I am really enjoying this thread, and look forward to building the sheath for the matching knife. Keep the pictures coming.

Dano · February 07, 2006, 06:04:00 PM

bwahh haahh ha ha ha

Killdeer · February 07, 2006, 06:21:00 PM

John has a NEAT shop! It's got all that cool stuff in it and horizontal spaces that you can set stuff on and EVERYTHING!!

Where can you get tags for unicorn?
Killdeer :confused:

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 06:28:00 PM

This is Gemsbuk / Oryx horn. But if we want to call it Unicorn to drive the bidding up, then so be it.

Had a much bigger pile before bow making season started Tom.

Need to clean up the outside of horn before flattening. Dang this stuff stinks.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 06:35:00 PM

Before and after clean up. Need to get rid of all the ridges in order to flatten.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 06:37:00 PM

Heat gun and a good vise will have the horn flat and the shop smelly in no time.
I like to flatten a small section at a time, and keep the area already flattened in the vise under pressure. If you reheat a section that is already flat it tends to want to go back to the original shape.