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Doglegged Stave
tom sawyer:
I was taught to draw a line down the center of the crown of the stave, following the little tick marks of the grain. Then you measure on either side of this line to lay out the bow. Then you straighten it with heat and you have a bow with no grain running off the sides of the limbs.
Hillbilly, that is an interesting observation about leaving a stave as thick as it is wide when heatbending to remove a dogleg. I never heard of that but it makes sense. Probably makes it less likely to break or twist when you're cranking it straight.
What I'd probably do, is make a 60" bow out of that stave.
Wasatchhawk:
Pictures?
Well an interesting thing happened to my camera. Apparently Taking them afield when its raining is not a good Idea. But the first one survived hundreds of rainstorms but not the fall off the roller coaster. The second one didn't even last one trip through the washer, can you believe that?
I just learned this week that even though the first one looks and acts dead, if you squeeze it just right It will take pictures 50% of the time. now I just need to find my old cables to hook to the computer and I'llsend some of those pictures.
Great advice to follow the grain and rough it out keeping it thicker than wide. I'll try that.
Randy
Justin Snyder:
So take 2 of each angle and post 50%. ;D Justin
Wasatchhawk:
Heres my first pile of shavings. Turns out the stave is dog legged. Turns out my busted camera only take a picture 20% of the time. I only got two of the 10 shots I took.
One other thing I noticed is the heart wood has a couple of ridges that run the length of the stave. Do I have to scrape the sapwood off right down to the heart wood in the grooves? should I try to lay out the pattern avoiding the grooves?
I found Pat's explaination of measuring from each side and dividing by two to find the center since the splits generally follow the grain.
Any advice on scraping down to the first heartwood ring since there are grooves in it?
Randy
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1/2primitive:
To tell the truth, I like some character in my bows, I would keep the dogleg (and I don't like waiting for it to dry from steam bending :D).
Sean
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