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LEGIONNAIRE:
heres more.. I sinew backed the bow sadly I ran out of battery so I could only capture myself putting on a second layer. The first pics are of me sanding the bow after removing some twine I wrapped the bow in after the first layer of sinew. Then are the pics of my setup oh the sinew for the first backing..

Since the bow is drying i will work on some arrows.

LEGIONNAIRE:
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LEGIONNAIRE:
After sanding and waiting about ten days to dry it was time to tiller the bow!
So far I have a defect, the bow is slightly crooked to one side which causes the string to be off center to one side. What I will do in this case is make new knocks both on the same side so that the string will be aligned and near the center of the bow.
here im shaving some wood to start the tillering of

now floor tillering the bow

More shaving with the scissors.. oops fly

strung the bow for the first time

needed to take some wood off

now it looks better!

LEGIONNAIRE:
After tillering the bow to 24 inches, it ended up beign about 40 lbs maybe a little more. Some of its reflex disappeared however it held about 2- 2.5 inches of reflex in it. I started now on the decorative artwork on it. I drew some heiroglyphs on it from a mayan stone in Copan Yucatan Mexico, then I used my dremel to carve them out on the belly side. Here are the pics.. I also carved out the Mayan God Qutzalcoatl on one of the nocks.

LEGIONNAIRE:
forgot the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZVzc0csKY

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