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question for the yew experts...(hey Del!)

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Del the cat:
Yeah, that's the sort of approach I'd take.
If you find the knot is wider than the limb, you'll need to rethink amd either leave a bulge in the width, try to go one side of the knot.
Or resign yourself to making a different bow from that stave. Make a shorter bow or save it as one billet for a later bow.
Del

mikekeswick:
The other option is to follow the grain around the knot. ;)

blackhawk:
Oooo that could be a booger for a warbow...good advice above...I wouldn't reduce any more width around the knot and valley...because all the tension will be riding on the high sides on the sides...its called "riding the rails",and when you have that, there isn't much surface there taking the tension,and its better having the tension over center and not on the sides....I had a bow that rode the rails and it was fine for thousands of shots,but then it eventually developed small tension cracks on the high sides on the sides. So leaving as much width there as you can is recommended, also because of that rotten knot. Some folks have put sinew in valleys to raise the plane above the high sides and releive them and put the tension back where it belongs over center,and builds up a crown.

AH:
Thanks guys, yeah I'm not taking any more meat away from the knot area, it seems like sound wood on the belly, but the back is what I'm worried about. I've heard of people having leaving holes unplugged in osage bows, but never in a yew warbow.

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