Much wailing and gnashing of teeth

Good news: our bows from Grozier have arrived in time for the archery tournament in September!

Good News: aikidomayland's bow is fine.

Bad news: Mine is &$^%#%$#! DAMAGED! And since they were custom made in Netherlands, ordered last October, there is no way he could make one, and get it to me before the tournament!

( dammitdammitdammit )

A bit of the good along with the bad

Surprisingly, the zils I ordered just a week ago, have already arrived. Between making crocheted hair nets (no, not snoods, these are for long braids, to hold them in a nice bun) and practicing zils, I am in better spirits.

aikidomayland emailed Grozer and told him point blank to send me a new bow, the proper color (yeah, forgot to mention this, but I ordered blue leather, and it's pitch black) and with the string bridges intact, by Aug 25^th. When we get the new bow, then we will send the damaged one back.

I'll hope. *sigh*

A bit more good-ish news

aikidomayland called Grozer and had a nice talk with his assistant (Grozer doesn't' speak English so, she had to translate) and Grozer and she apologised profusely for the fubar. It seems this is the good news: the string guides are glued on, not carved of the wood itself, so can be reattached with strong epoxy (like the kind aikidomayland uses to attach horn/bone nocks onto wooden arrows). I was also told that I can take it to the tourney, and if I have any other problems with it during the tourney, I can return it for an exchange, no questions asked.

( Pictures of bows, unstrung. They are large images. Need to view in new window, as they will be scaled down )