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

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 06:38:00 PM

Horn flattened with heat, ready for the second round of grinding.

John Sturtevant · February 07, 2006, 06:40:00 PM

Cleaned up and thinned down some. Need to shape to the limb profile and finish flattening when I have the bow. I'll pick this up again later when the bow gets here.....and hope we don't screw it up.

Madpigslayer · February 07, 2006, 07:07:00 PM

Hey John, nice product placement with your mojam beer cooler sleeve...

Dano · February 07, 2006, 07:49:00 PM

John, did you get the matching shoes with that cooler?

wingnut · February 07, 2006, 07:54:00 PM

Nope Shona outbid him on the shoes. She's sitting here and got a kick outta the koosie cup pic.

Mike

AZStickman · February 08, 2006, 07:31:00 AM

This is getting real interesting..... The arm guards are almost done and I just got to see the pics man Robin does some awesome work.... This bow and the Osage selfbow are gonna be a real treat for whoever wins the bid.... Terry

Tom Leemans · February 08, 2006, 08:33:00 AM

Yes, grinding horn is like smelling burning hair but it sure polishes up nice. Not quite as nice as grinding garrolite though.

Boy, he's got ergo mats and storage drawers and you can see his walls and floor and everything.

John Sturtevant · February 08, 2006, 07:15:00 PM

Suppose it's too late to say the can holder belongs to my wife?

Killdeer · February 08, 2006, 07:27:00 PM

I noticed that koozie, verrry nice! Fuzzy slippers for the Fresca.

Robin is doing the armguard? This package is gonna be FFAwesome!! :eek:

Killdeer

rainman · February 12, 2006, 09:07:00 PM

ttt

Dan Raney

Roughcountry · February 12, 2006, 10:03:00 PM

Mike, mailed the guards on Friday. You and Terry hafta figure out which bow they go with, I have to ask my bride if my socks match :D

Roughcountry · February 12, 2006, 11:03:00 PM

Heres how the guards finished up. The other has black rawhide lace instead of white and the stamping pattern go's clockwise.

cellophane · February 13, 2006, 01:17:00 AM

whoa...roughcountry, even if your socks don't match you sure can do some leatherwork. workmanship is stunning!

the Ferret · February 13, 2006, 06:45:00 AM

Geez neat stuff..you have to wonder who was the first guy to figure out how to make that horn suitable for application to a bow and how he eve thought of it. Also hard to believe it bends back and forth without snapping.

Beautiful leatherwork Roughcountry!

Tom Leemans · February 13, 2006, 07:10:00 AM

Robin that guard is AWESOME!

Mickey - Horn...Nature's carbon fiber!

John Sturtevant · February 13, 2006, 11:02:00 AM

Robin, the leather work is absolutely beautiful. Very impressive.

USPS hasn't got around to delivering the bow yet, so no progress. Hoped to have it done this weekend. Evidently I'm supposed to be gone hunting late this week thru the 26th....so it will be after that before I can work on it now.

Tim Clark · February 26, 2006, 06:47:00 PM

ttt

How's it coming along?

John Sturtevant · February 27, 2006, 01:22:00 PM

The bow made it, but I've been gone hunting. Finally had a little time to work on the bow a bit yesterday.

Now we'll see if I can keep from screwing up the fine work of masters Westvang and Jones.

This is what we're starting with.

John Sturtevant · February 27, 2006, 01:25:00 PM

Will record the tiller and make sure I get it back to something kinda close.

Unbraced

Braced

At 28"

More later.....

'46 · February 27, 2006, 03:48:00 PM

What an outstanding bow... I can't wait to see the finished product.