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jpitts:
Thanks Pastor. I really enjoyed reading your blog. I love the pics of your helpers too. Way to go. Get yourself a bench soon so the wife won't get ya for using her table ;D

wannabe:
Gang,
Thank you all for your kind words and advice. Pappy, I'll continue to work the tiller of this bow above and below the hinges before I back it. Jimmy, I'm glad you liked the blog and my helpers. George, your encouragement means a great deal.  Jimmy, you're right about the table and the kitchen counter. I'm hoping to make a http://www.primitiveways.com/shaving-horse.html portable shaving horse like the one at the primitive ways website.

May your tiller be true and may the eccentricities of the wood lend to the beauty of your work,

Joe

gpw:
You guys ever just take a tree limb and make a bow ...??? Round "natural" cross section ...a well seasoned limb makes a serviceable bow with little work ... a good knife and some string and you're in business... no where the performance of a "worked "bow... but Fun ...very long river cane arrows shoot ok for short distances...

jpitts:
GPW, I used to do that all the time as a kid....
Pastor...you may find a regular height bench with a regular vice on it works as good or better...and I also use one of those Black-n-Decker workmate benches too...I have a shaving horse but use the other two more... ::)

duffontap:
Pastor Joe, do your people call you 'PJ'?  They should. 

Here's my honest advice--abandon that project and start a new bow.  You've learned a lot from the project already and you will have to invest a lot of time in retillering and backing--time that could be spent building a much better bow.  All of us have broken plenty of bows in the learning process and some of us still do (like me).  Lean it up against a wall and grab another stick to work on.

If you'ld like a good sappling or split stave, send me a PM with your address and I'll send you one. 

            J. D.

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