Chek-Mate Bow Blanks
05-09-2010, 07:39 AM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 9
Chek-Mate Bow Blanks
I was lucky enough to receive the first ever bow blank from Marc at Chek-mate to complete.
It is the new Beaver Creek Model.
It was a lot of fun making it and it turned out great.
Here is the review I did on it.
http://peteward.com/2010pages/test.chekmate.blank.html
or go to my home page www.peteward.com and click the trad reviews.
It is the new Beaver Creek Model.
It was a lot of fun making it and it turned out great.
Here is the review I did on it.
http://peteward.com/2010pages/test.chekmate.blank.html
or go to my home page www.peteward.com and click the trad reviews.
Last edited by petew; 05-09-2010 at 07:41 AM.
05-09-2010, 02:01 PM
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I got about 20 hickory staves, 20 black locust staves, 5 good osage staves, 2 good osage slats, a bunch of IPE slats, 5 bamboo strips, a few hickory strips, bunch of apple staves, but not sure thats going to work out, 2 white ash blanks. And lastly a 2 piece take down yew ELB in the works.
But no fiberglass deals. I do have a heat box (thanks to Russ with all his bow building). So I am ready. Figured I better use up some stuff before jumping into the fiberglass game.
Man, I got a problem.
But no fiberglass deals. I do have a heat box (thanks to Russ with all his bow building). So I am ready. Figured I better use up some stuff before jumping into the fiberglass game.
Man, I got a problem.
05-10-2010, 06:18 AM
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05-10-2010, 12:04 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
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Just go out and cut some yew, seal it, and within a year you will have the best staves you can get.
05-10-2010, 12:06 PM
#9
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
Hey Mark, you can get great Juniper her in the lower. Ive got moutain juniper all over my land. I have yet to use it for anything but lams. Once i get this mess of osage and hackberry used up, I think im going to cut some juniper.
05-10-2010, 12:34 PM
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Like Mark said, you have the best wood around. Yew. I am in the process of trying to exchange some osage, Hackberry, and deer sinew with a gay from B.C. for yew. The shipping is still going to cost an arm and a leg.
Just go out and cut some yew, seal it, and within a year you will have the best staves you can get.
Just go out and cut some yew, seal it, and within a year you will have the best staves you can get.
