Bows and a Little Politics

[@samfulks4896]

Lotta work going on. Keep it up my friend of archery and fellow man. Thanks

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@samfulks4896 I'm doing my best. The winter is a tough time to work in an unheated workshop.

[@estelpereira5011]

Wonderful work on that bow, John.

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@estelpereira5011 Thank you, and happy New Year, Estel!

[@slingshotwarrrior8105]

I just subscribed!

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@slingshotwarrrior8105 Welcome!

[@slingshotwarrrior8105]

@@johnjriggsarchery2457 thanks

[@slingshotwarrrior8105]

@johnjriggsarchery2457 thanks

[@sagesmokesurvival]

I want a short bow from you 🔥

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@sagesmokesurvival Howdy Sagesmoke. Love your channel!! Email me at [e-mail] and I'll pass along my phone number.

[@MountaincraftOutdoors]

Daaaang, looking good my friend 💪🏻

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@MountaincraftOutdoors I'm enjoying the heck out of this one!

[@dougdumbrill7234]

Just regarding your cold weather comment: I broke a usually reliable survival bow made from a chokecherry sapling on a minus 10F day. I don’t use my juniper self bows in extreme cold because the seem most prone to brittleness at full (or over draw) 😳

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@dougdumbrill7234 Hi Doug, it's a sad sad thing when a good bow breaks because of something like that. I often wonder if rawhide backing would get brittle. I'm pretty sure sinew could take it; look at Inuit cable bows.

[@dougdumbrill7234]

@ I have a new 54 inch sinew backed juniper I’ll try soon. I’ll let you know how it goes

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@dougdumbrill7234 I'm sure. I have faith! It's been a while since I made a juniper bow.

[@user-mb4se6km5p]

Do you know how people would seal their bow staves for drying with out modern sealers?

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@user-mb4se6km5p My first impression would be wax.

[@danielspain7231]

Got minus 5 degrees here in the south uk !

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@danielspain7231 Celsius? That's cold enough!

[@stevedaughton7247]

Good evening my friend, I was thinking today about that elm log that you started drying a few months ago... the one you made one chainsaw cut to the center. I thought of this because I cut a bunch of really nice elm last year into staves sizes and they warped and twisted pretty bad. At what point do you think it would be safe to split or cut it up into staves? Great content my friend, love your channel...

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@stevedaughton7247 I feel that! I turned a smaller of my logs into staves and they turned into bananas. My answer is I don't know because they'll dry at different rates so I'm going to cut only one stave out of the log when I'm going to immediately work it into a bow. I cut this tree I believe in March of 2024 so it hasn't been sitting that long. I honestly don't know except I really should get a moisture meter and measure it on the inside of the cut when I cut a stave out of it.

[@danielspain7231]

John do you want to sell that bow? 😬

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@danielspain7231 Howdy Daniel, It's already sold. It's going off to Tennessee. Pretty much all of the bows you'll see for a while are commissions. The next one I'll get to that's not called for will be an elm stave Holmgaard.