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Hickory Backed Cherry Longbow Follies; Episode 2
DCM:
Chris,
This is supposed to be fun buddy. I don't mean to be presumptuous, only I've been exactly where you are. Settle down, take your time, don't get all hung up on one project. Get you some simple stave bows going, in various stages, and go back and forth over a couple or three projects. Time, patience, is the one ingredient you can measure into a project and be assured of improving the results. IMHO Also, get into a position where you can post a pic occasionally. It will help provide another perspective, and offer opportunities for you to re-assess a project.
Can you pike the cherry bow?
Do you live in bow wood country? I thought you did, but I recall you working ERC, and now backed cherry, and have to wonder if it's just curiousity or necessity. Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that it's sometimes easier to get a successful project from the more main stream materials. Do you need me to bring you a fat ringed osage stave or two to MoJam?
DanaM:
I glued mine up last night, lets see if I can break 3 bows in a row. Yer not alone minuteman.
DanaM
Justin Snyder:
You are too hard on yourself. Go look in the mirror and say I'm a nice guy and people like me. ( you do remember Saturday Night Live don't you) Don't give up on this bow yet. It still has 38-40# off education in it. Even if you don't believe you can get the bow you want out of it, you can get some more practice out of it. I would cut 2 inches off each end and keep tillering. Use nothing but a scraper. It is slow but it takes a lot more time to mess up. Put it on the tree and quit looking at the tips. Start exercising the limbs and watching to see where they bend. Use a pencil to mark the belly in areas where you don't think it bends enough. Take it off the tree and take about 5 scrapes off the marked area. Then exercise the limbs some more. Keep this up until you get both limbs bending in a good arc. After you have marked the limb each time, then you can look at the tips to see if one bends farther down. You can try to get the limb travel even by working out the stiff areas. Don't remove wood from the whole limb unless the whole limb is too stiff and it bends even. The limb travel will work itself out before you are done. If both limbs are bending in nice arcs, then start working on getting the limb travel even. Put it on the tree and exercise the limbs. Take a pencil and mark the weak limb from fades to tip. Then use your scraper to remove the pencil mark. Did I mention EXERCISE THE LIMBS. Without proper exercise you cant always tell were the limb wants to bend. You are in Indiana, its not that far from Pappy's. Make a few glue ups, or rough out a stave or two. Then head on down to Pappy's for the Tennessee Classic. You can get all the tips and advice you need there. Justin
duffontap:
Justin,
You'ld make a great motivational speaker. Anyone who can make SNL relavent on a primitive archery page is a friend of mine. "You'll probably find that as you go out there, you wont amount to jack squat!" Do you happen to live in a van down by the river? ;D
J. D. Duff
Badger:
Minuteman, don't feel bad, I have been doing this for years and still can't tiller for beans. Good advice above! Steve
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