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Hazelnut bow build-a-long (fixed pictures)
Keenan:
Gordon,
Just trying to get caught up this buildalong was one of the first that I'm seen. AWESOME !! Very well written and informative. I chuckled several times because I have always thought that some of my own ways of shaping and forming bows to be somewhat hokey and not to modern. But when I saw that I'm not the only one hanging weights from a bow in a vice, I was greatly encouraged. Also the way you clamp blocks to your bench.
Having a steel fab shop I have found myself hanging all kinds of tubing or steel scraps when needed.
Like JJ said can't wait to see that beauty finished. Keenan
Gordon:
Keenan,
Are you saying I'm not modern! :o
I take that as a high compliment! ;D
Nightmyth:
"I’m going to dye the silk a dark color to bring out the colors and pattern in the snakeskin."
Gordon, are you saying that the Snake skin picks up the bows back colors? I'm assuming the snake skin has scales that are somewhat translucent. Is this correct?
Myth
Gordon:
Myth,
Yes, it creates more contrast between the pattern and the background. If you do not do this, the pattern tends to wash out - at least that has been my experience with rattlesnake skins.
Pat B:
With some of the thicker skins snakes, like Eastern Diamondback and Timber rattlers, I don't think it is as critical as with the western rattlers, copperheads and other thin skinned snakes. The bow I'm hunting with this year is an osage self bow with a prairie rattler backing. The osage yellow does show through but I don't mind the design not being very vivid.
I have never darkened the back of the bow before skinning so I have a biased opinion. I'm sure I will try it at some point. Pat
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