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Character Osage Bow Buildalong.

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Dean Marlow:
My grandson has his eyes on it already.

blackhawk:
Darn...yeah..snip it off and go at it again....that's the gamble we take with character wood...I've had sharp snakey kinks let go as well...my theory is the bend in a bow wants to follow a straight line...like the marks with your chalk line...and when the wood sharply turns and deviates from this course it wants to be on,it ends up fighting it and sometimes they break.

RyanY:
Sad to see it didn't work out. Unfortunately it seems like the swirly grain that makes pieces like that so beautiful also presents a great weakness. Still a great learning experience for working with snakey staves.

soy:
 :'(  :-\  :'( that's a real bummer man

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