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New Elm Bow
Dane:
--- Quote from: DanaM on July 25, 2007, 05:45:29 am ---Dane nice first stave bow, I like your idea for staining the bow and I like the simple look also.
Any chance of a full draw picture on the tiller tree? Looks like both limbs could bend more
near the fade and perhaps in the outer third. But hey I'm a rookie too eh :)
How was the elm to work with? I have a few staves from a small tree I managed to get and it was a bugger to split.
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Thanks, Dana. Elm was absolutely excellent to work with. I didn't, of course, have to split the tree myself.
It didn't seem to like a draw knife, so I used mostly a block plane, rasps, and cabinet scrapers after that. I'll have to take a shot on the tree when I get a chance, I only have some from earlier in the tillering process.
Funny how it is easier to see issues in other people's tillering, isn't it? Maybe we get blind with our own work? :) I do need to keep working toward having more bend closer to the fades, a block of some sort for me, but I'm getting better, I think. And, I don't think I am going to alter this any more. I want to keep it at this weight, and it performs well for me, so good enough for this one.
Dane
DanaM:
Yea I'm up at dark thirty too much :(
Have fun with her and shoot straight Dane.
Pappy:
I know what you mean,stave's tend to do that. :) Never built any board bows so I don't know about them but I would guess it would be more straight forward. :)
Pappy
jpitts:
Dane, I like what you did with the staining job. I may have to try that on the BL I'm working on. The tiller looks good. If you take more pics, I'd like to see close-up's of the tips . Thanks ;D
Hillbilly:
Good looking bow, Dane. I really like the color of that stain, too-turned out nice.
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