Are selfmade bows political correct? Dealers will suffer....................
This blog has not turned into a stage for political debates in the face of the worldwide financial crisis. But I wonder Marx being so actual and very right about the behaviour of the big capitalists. Nothing more to add , but I support “Occupy Wallstreet”. Everything made by yourself will bring the power back to you. I´m still dreaming of a world without any political, financial or whatever leaders and the growing social networks make me very hope. Get your power back, that´s what shamans all over the worlds and times are telling us.
I´ve not blogged since weeks. Main reason was the best fall we´ve ever had here. From August till mid- Decembre we´ve had about 6 rainy days. Too dry for sure, but I could cut a lot of bow- woods ( black locust, rowan, whitebeam, mountain- maple………….), I´ve never had so many staves in stock. I could do a lot of fire- woods too, making some new fences, preparing the grazing land and a barn for our sheepfarming we´ll begin next spring. And a very sad thing has happened: in the last week of Octobre one of our horses, the brown gelding died of some diseases of age. We knew since about half a year that this will happen, but anyway, a horse is so big and he was for about 20 years a true companion!
Even I had been so busy, I´ve prepared a lot of articles about making retro- and other flightbows, flight arrows, about my bow- classes, for not to forget the finishing of the crossbow.
There´s to much snow outside, vacations, time for heavy blogging.
Some pics of soon upcoming bowxplosions:
From the top: another flight 137.5 made of rowan and walnut, osage retro- flight, the MARX NOW made of black locust, sinew- backed. All made with inserted siyahs (recurves )mountain maple
Same bows as above- backview, they are all about 45" in length
The osage retro- flight bow with a grip made of cherry braced. It´s 49lbs at 23", I´m very sure it will make the 200f/s
The best flightarrow, I´ve ever made- cedar shaft with inserted hardwood- a real burner- it´s making of will be another article with many pics
So far, Christmas is family- time.
Cheers, 2012 is coming, have great times……………………………………
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Hi Mike,
I think it exactly in the same way, that’s reason why I support it as well… Your selfmade bow “Marx Now” is not only political correct, but is simply lovely…
Richard & Interpretace
Hi Richard, what a surprise to see you posting here, I guess you don´t understand to much from bow- making as I do not understand to much from making such great music, but you´ve a the 100%-feeling for the vibe. You´ll not believe it, but I did this bow for a musician, yes, a drummer, face to face with the beginning of the financial crisis he got so angry, that he want me to paint the bow with this “Marx Now”. I did the bow, my wife did the painting, she is a teacher of visual arts.
For many years I did replica of historical bows only, actually I like to paint bows in a somewhat graffitti- style. Every age has its visual arts.
I like INTERPRETACE popolare, very basic understanding of the term popolare.
Cheers, Michael