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Zuma:
The one experiment that I could do by hand was switch the shield banner with
the very thick one. They are close in weight but not shape.
The chunky one seemed to be very poor at direction change.
Worse than no weigh actually.
Zuma

Zuma:
Well I finally had time to make a bow today.
Nothing pretty but very effective.
I tried a long shaft first and found it to flexable.
I first expanded some holes in thin banded slate with
 the shorter shaft. It worked fine.
I got a 5/8" hunk of soapstone and scratched in a little
starting hole. Wrapped the shaft with the bow string
and tried it with out the weight. It worked OK but the string would
slip if I put a little pressure on the shaft holder stone.
I put the bannerstone on and things really perked.
I drilled into the soapstone so fast that I didn't even time it.
I think I got about a 1/2" deep and stopped to look at the depth
and symmetry of the hole. I must have taken my shaft keeper stone away
and the bow pushed the shaft forword and snapped the drill.
To be continued---- lol
Zuma

Zuma:
Some more pics

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