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Hackberry recurve build along, real time hopefully. ** DONE **
PEARL DRUMS:
--- Quote from: Dazv on April 12, 2012, 05:40:14 pm ---man this is looking great. It looks like you have been shooting off the top of your hand :-) i have the same.
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Yup! Stinkin test firing stiff arrows. I picked out a chunk of red feather quill the next day at work. Must have been 1/4" long.
--- Quote from: DQ on April 12, 2012, 06:17:10 pm ---Great job on the build-a -long, Chris. Almost makes me want to tackle a sinew back....almost. lol
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Thanks Darryl. Bring the goods over here and we can do one on my sinew jig and you can bring it back home to cure out.
PEARL DRUMS:
The skins dried down nice with only two small areas that popped up. Super glue works good there. The scales rubbed right off with my fingers. I use duct tape when needed. I vice the bow up mid way and run my Exacto knife down the edge carefully trimming as I go. I try to just get it close for now. Then I grab my ol' faithful sanding block and gently clean the edges up. I will run it lightly down the "corner" in the same direction the scales run. That really smooths off the transistion between wood and skin.
PEARL DRUMS:
Once done with the skins I sanded the entire bow with 220 grit and wiped it down with a VERY lightly dampened rag to remove dust and such. Then its tw dips per half in my dip tube. Its a piece of 3" PVC pipe with a cap glued on one end and the other pops on and off. I dip my arrows in there as well. Its an excellent way to seal a bow. I use Zip Guard gloss, Helmsman Spar is cheaper and works just as good. I like the amber hue I get from Zip Guard so I pay the extra $7.
osage outlaw:
Lookin' good Pearly. I might have missed it, but how many oz.'s of sinew did you use on it?
Adam:
I know this is a little off topic, but I noticed the orange grips on your farriers rasp in your last picture. Where did you get those? I always tear my hands up using mine. Thanks for putting all the work into this post.
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