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here is my latest bow. As I had a shortage in bamboo I decided to try something different. I backed this ipe bow with fiberglass cloth used in the aeronautic industry. I clued to layer of...
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Tom,I keep starting to write and then backing off. So I will try one more time and keep it simple.Your site is fantastic, what you bring to world is without measure. How it has changed my life is...
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Pierre: You are not the real target here in the first place. My guess it's a build-up of things all tied up in a bursting bundle. It just appears to be the day the bundle couldn't hold anymore. Really...
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I sure wish I could take back the comments I posted on this thread. I guess more then anything I feel frustrated. I took offense to some of the comments made but find myself wondering if I have...
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Some very good questions have been posed in this debate. I don't think anyone meant to give offense at the level it was taken.Let me ask this: How important is it to be "right" in such a debate? Let's...
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One bow doesn't unpaleo a site..Besides Pierre didn't have any bamboo and he improvised..I'm quite sure paleo man improvised when he ( she) had to...Like Steve mentioned many here have made laminate...
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Great points Marvin.Pierre didn't post pictures of a laminated back and belly FG bow.His bow is still a wood bow, tillered as a wood bow.Really, how much performance enancing a FG cloth is compared to...
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Deciding on a definition of "natural archery" is going to be a theological discussion far more divisive than this discussion of putting fiberglass cloth on a wood bow to keep splinters down. The...
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The point is purity. Thats why I dont hang at other foums.I can suggest that this site is about bows with all working parts made from parts of plants or animals. If your interests lies elswere, we can...
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A simple and large definition at the same time...I'd add minerals for pigments or arrow heads...
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I'm with DrJag2 on this one.As far as definitions and limitations- there will be a point of divergence at some level for everybody ("You use copper to flake with? I only use antler!" or some such). It...
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I like the idea of few rules. I have no problem, though, in adding rules where/when the need arises. I do understand where Tim is coming from even if I feel he has overreacted. I probably would have...
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No big deal. No need for any being turned away. We only now have 4 metamucil bows that have managed to slip in. What possible harm could it possibly do."Our finished bow might have arrived by time...
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The thing Tim says are important though, we who make natural bows do so not to have the fastest or most accurate bow, we have chosen the harder way of doing things for one reason or another. So far it...
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Noooo! this stinks.now we got people leavin' this place 'cause of one word.Tim dont leave! ive never met you before but you are one of the most helpful people on this forum.well,i hope you come back.
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I would also like to echo Bowman's sentiment. I, too, have never met Tim but he has been so helpful and inspiring to me as a novice bowyer. I hope he comes back. The new format is great as the...
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Can we please let this topic go! Tim has left his personal email address but here it is again:Tim6609@aol.comFeel free to contact him directly. He is no longer visiting this board so plea to him will...
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