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Syringa character bow (updated)
Keenan:
Pat, thank you and back at ya ;D
Gordon, glad to here it. ;D ;D What are you working on now???? Keenan
Gordon:
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Oh just a short little osage recurve for a friend of mine who recently had neck surgery and can't pull a lot of weight. He's got a long draw so I'm shoring the back up with rawhide.
Pappy:
Good idea on the belt sander,I've been using a file then a scraper on snake and rawhide
backing.The leaving it a little wider is also a good idea,especially with me and the belt sander. ;D
Looking good.Can't wait to see it finished. :)
Pappy
Keenan:
Ok back on this one. Been sanding and checking tiller from time to time. The tiller stayed just about the same after ading the skins and I think it added a few pounds to the draw weight.
Shot it in some, but finding that difficult because I'm right handed and it 's a lefty and the way this handle is angled makes it hard to shoot right handed.
On a bow with drastic dips, dives and curves you need to look more at what is moving and overall limb shape and not as much in having every part perfectly the same. It just wont happen on some serious character bows. Just try to get as much of the limb working as you can.
I decided to try something different on this finish. As I said befor there are alot of battle wounds on the bow and some natural spalting where the rub scar was so I'm going to try to imitate the spalting by useing the feathered edge of a rag dipped in the stain then just lightly broom it on in light streeks. Here is the results. It hid alot of the scars very well. this is just stained with no finish yet. Keenan
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The Burnt Hill Archer:
just read through the whole thing...Great work! very humbling. im still struggling with clear strait wood. i do have a couple of lilac bushes that are more like trees now, havnt been pruned in years. might have to try some. im looking forward to seeing it completed.
Phil
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