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jamie:
welcome aboard everybody gave great advice . one thing more important than the others. is make sure you know your limitations when hunting. practice , practice, and when your down done practice some more. where you from? peace

Mohawk:
Thanks for the replies; the bathroom scale I would have never considered, great idea - if im getting it, it sort of almost sounds like a reverse tiller stick, ie holding the middle point of the string stationary as opposed to the bow.

Jamie, i am in upstate ny - the deer are getting numerous.  just the other day, i saw an 11 pointer on the well used bike path. i had time to count, because he showed no fear of me and just watched me as i rolled up on him. a couple weeks ago, some were prancing through my front yard.  and i live on busy corner intersection in the city!

Mohawk:

--- Quote from: DanaM ---just remember that you have to keep the belly flat in this case because hickory starts to take compression fractures to the belly if badly tillered or rounded bellyed.
--- End quote ---

im using hand tools for this and (excuse my ignorance) i dont know much about wood working in general.  would I be using just a hand planer, and will this ensure it to be flat? I mean, if my angle on just one stroke is off, wouldnt that mess up the entire thing? i could be overthinking the situation (seeing as how man did this for tens of thousands of years without a single Home Depot), but I just want to make sure.

How do some of you real cavemen do this stuff? I mean do you chop up a stave with an obsidian ax? (which is so cool - i want to make an obsidian knife and axe, not to mention arrowheads, but im afraid of slicing my fingers off).  if you do that, are you just sorta guesstimating on the shape, like an artist making a sculpture?

I know I probably wont take a deer this year. But if i am going to kill one, i want to make the bow and the arrow that end another creatures life. it seems to honor the spirit of the animal more than if you just go to walmart and buy a rifle and some ammo and plug him from afar.

DanaM:
It was finnish native that made that comment, but I don't think a hand plane is the way to go. All ya need is a good wood rasp and a scraper.
I generally alternate rsap, scraper, rasp, scraper until I'm close to finished dimensions then use strictly the scraper. Do a search on here for rasp
and scraper and you will find info. 3 rivers sells Nicholson #49 and #50 rasps and scrapers, the rasps are expensive but well worth it. You can make yer
own scrapers from things like old saw blades, squares etc. I use an old butcher knife most of the time. And yea you can go stone age also see jamies threads
hes the caveman.

jamie:
mohawk you are surrounded by chert in new york. the hudson and mohawk rivers have cobbles on the banks. normanskill is the best for points and such. eopus and onondaga are more available in the nrth and west. ive been trying to get some time to come up and do some rock hunting. the place i use to get it from now has homes on it. if i come up i'll let ya know and we can do some breakin. im in ct. by the way. my brother in law has a 180 acre camp north of fultonville. so the next time i get up there for anything ill let ya know. peace

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