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Craftsmanship and Archery
Howard remembers:
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"He (Guy) was a good craftsman and architecturally inclined - meticulous in everything he did.
Sometime during college, he became interested in archery through some friends. Then he decided he wanted to build his own bows because he had read somewhere about the kind of material you could use for them and how they varied.
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| Guy in 1940 - age 19 |
We had this place in Palo Pinto County, west of Weatherford, Texas. We had 3,000 budded pecan trees down there on the ranch. So he went down there and found a couple or three long pieces of pecan wood. He had heard that that would make a good bow. He cut them, took them to the house up on the roof, and lowered them down the chimney and let them age in there with smoke going up through them all year. And then, he very carefully tapered them with steel wool and sandpaper, and adding some black overlay running the length and some mahogany on the handle. It would be quite a piece of workmanship! And he would make his own arrows adding points and hand-trimmed feathers!
I never did say this to him, but he was so accomplished at everything he tackled. If I had thought about it, I would have said, ' Ease off boy, you're going to give me a complex! ' But I was always so proud of him and he was so wonderful. I was delighted to be in his company."
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