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country:
ya got me looking for good piece of hackberry  ;)

Pat B:
Pearlie, she's gonna be a screamer. The light physical weight of the hackberry and the strength of the sinew(laid smooth and straight for the best performance)should be a great combo. Let her dry for at least a month, more the better. Put her somewhere dry but out of sight and let her cure. Go work on one of those other bows you've got going!  ;)
  I'm looking forward to seeing her complete.  8)

PEARL DRUMS:
Dont tell me what to do Pat B., your not my boss! :P ........You know I appreciate every ounce of knowledge you share.  ;)

Day something or another, I have 1 hour to this point.

Two weeks is my max paitence for waiting on bows. Its a horrible affliction, but I cope. The bow was long string tillered prior to sinewing. I weighed my sinew so I knew I had close to equal amounts on each limb. The first thing I did was put a long string back on the bow and pulled it to what felt like 20# about 50 times. I wanted to be sure all the sinew and wood knew how to bend together. I snapped a pic after that exercise period. The right limb is stiff midway as you can see. I took it down and scraped that area about 30-40 times and exercised her 50 more times to the same spot on the wall. The second pic shows the results. Still stiff in that spot, but better.

PEARL DRUMS:
This time I took it down and not only scraped that stiff area on the belly, but I narrowed it down some as well. That spot must have tempered more than the rest of the limb because it is stiff and allot of my temper color is gone. I will leave that belly area alone from here out, only width reductions in that area. I put it back up and tugged on the rope another 50-60 more times and snapped a pic. Still a touch stiff there so I scrpaed just the width in that area and tugged another 50 times and snapped a pic. Its close enough for me to put a short brace to her, maybe 1 1/2 - 2 1/2". I dont see any glaring errors that will hurt the bow if I brace it. Dont ever brace a bow that isnt tillered for ANY reason. Target draw weight is second only to proper tiller. Give me a tillered underweight bow versus an untillered heavy weight anyday!

PEARL DRUMS:
Here she is short braced and I can dig it. I dont see much in the line of flat spots or hinge's. I pulled the bow to 18" about 50 times and now I will let her sit short braced for a bit and think about being a bow  ;). Then I will finish the tiller and get to my target draw weight plus 3# or so. The last pic I tossed in just to show string alignment at brace. Its rule numer one for me when building static bows. If its not a perfect blank, or if I dont think I can make it perfect it wont be a static bow.


 

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