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MWirwicki:
What is turquoise?

Prarie Bowyer:
Semi-Precious stone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise

Often seen in indian type jewlery set in silver.  Can be crushed, mixed with a thick or thin density resin like super glue and used as an attractive gap fill. 

I do some bowl turning in green wood also that I let crack and fill like this.



I also harvest and mill much of my own wood for risers and such.  Usualy it's left over from a carving project or drop from cutting a bowl blank.  The technique work well with bows also.  So long as the crack is not structure threatening.  Even if it is actualy but other stuff needs to be done.

This is my current bow that I shoot and plan to hunt.  The walnut riser was a log saved from a firewood pile.  I cut away the biggest cracks but the little stuff I just filled.






some people fill this sort of tiny end grain crack with super glue and saw dust but it seems to alwayse show.  I used to get a resin filler and fuss with paints like a furniture repair  and make it invisible.  Now I prefer to highlight it. I am working with wood after all.  I also use crushed coral which is pink, and lapis lazuli which is cobalt blue (out of the later one).  Malechite can be used also, it's that light green rock.

Prarie Bowyer:
Thanks for the paitence everybody.  Both bows traded. 

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