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Attempt at 100# Ash warbow.

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nathan elliot:
Heat treat, scrape, heat treat, scrape. Have had to deal with a few string alignment problems as I have progressed. Finally cut some knocks and put on a long string. I have uprated my pulley system on my tiller tree, still not really happy with it, but it will have to do until I find a better one. Really have high hopes for this bow. Not sure I will be able to pull it when finished, but its something to aim at, no pun intended ;)

The bow so far and my cow horn knocks-



Nathan

Dauntless:
Great project Nathan, I'll be watching it closely.  It's a fabulous piece of wood you have there.

Cromm:
Coooooooll..........

bigcountry:
Interesting.  I am keeping an eye on this thread. 

alanesq:
Looking very good :-)

As has been mentioned above you will find ash tends to chrysal so you need to be very careful whilst tillering not to over stress any point in the bow and work up drawlengths very slowly
if you have chased a growth ring the back will be bomb proof so no worry there

BTW - I never had much luck experimenting with heat treating myself - one thing I did discover is that heat treating the ash dries it out quickly and it takes literally months for the wood to normalise again (not sure if this helps, just my observation)

If it does happen to chrysal badly don't despair - I have a bow which I removed the belly and glued some lemonwood on and its made a really good bow

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