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Dean Marlow:
Now with the back chased to the ring I will mark the center of the stave and connect the dots. Then I will use my piece of wood which is cut to 1-1/2" wide marked in the center to get my desired width down the stave. Then I will connect the dots again. And remove the wood  with my big rasp to the lines. Now remember when you are removeing wood from the sides alway work from the back of the bow to the belly. You could damage the back going from belly to back with a rasp. More tomorrow.

PEARL DRUMS:

--- Quote from: blackhawk on January 08, 2013, 03:29:14 pm ---Its def one of those staves you only worry about the step your on...and when its time to go to the next you stop and think of every possible route,then sleep on it and wake up the next day and make a best decision. And even then ya might have to sleep on it again another night or two before making the next move. Lol.

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I dont do well at those types, but something tells me Dean is much more patient than I. I bet he gets a bow from it, and a fine one at that.

Marks:
That is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. How did it grow like that?

Dean Marlow:
Marks
  I traded a bow to a young man for some  Osage logs and one evening he pulled in my driveway with 4 huge Osage logs in the back of his truck. They were so big I had to use a tractor loader to get them out. 2 of the logs were worthless and the log this came from was fairly straight but had the wildest bark on it I ever seen on a Osage log. I told my wife if I can get this split it will be some real snakes in it. I destroyed most of the log trying to split it. It wouldn't split right. It always wanted to run off to the side because of such twisted grain. Worst thing I ever tied into trying to split.

Dean Marlow:
I did a little more work this morning on the  checked limb and removed the bad crack on the tip with no problem.Tapered the limb down a little from midlimb. Thought we were good to go and had some more cracks show up about midlimb after removing some belly wood. The top crack I believe I still have enough wood to remove it. But the edge crack has got me a little puzzled. It runs down to edge of the stave and I can see it on the edge of the back. It is still wide enough 1-1/4" from the crack on the back to the other side of the bow. My maim concern is will it angle up towards the belly to much. Tell me what you would do. This piece of wood kind of reminds me when I was raising my children. You always had one you could get a nice comfortable sleep every night and one you always had to sleep with one eye open.  Dang this one limb.

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