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Building the Vine Maple Bow - Finished
Gordon:
Using a micro-plane and/or rasp I feather the groves into the handle and fades thus creating a side to side swell.
Then I use a micro-plane and/or rasp to create the palm swell.
Gordon:
I radius the back and front of the handle with a rasp to begin the rounding process. I finish by rounding off the edges to create a nice round handle.
Next up - tillering
bow101:
Looking good. Can't wait 2 see the finale.
Gordon:
--- Quote ---Looking good. Can't wait 2 see the finale.
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Working on pulling the photos together and creating captions now. You don't realize just how many steps there are to making even a basic bow until you try to document them all. This is a lot of work... :P
Gordon:
Today I am going to tiller the bow to the desired draw length which for this bow is 27 inches. Here is what the bow presently looks like at rest and at brace.
On the tiller tree I start by pulling the bow to 15" and make note of the poundage registering on the scale. I then draw the bow to 16" and then back off to 15". If the poundage at 15" remains the same as before it is safe to pull it further to 17". If, however, the poundage at 15" drops, that means the limbs are beginning to take set and I lighten up the poundage a bit by scraping the belly. I then recalibrate the weight at 15" and repeat the process. I continue this process until the bow is pulled to 20".
At 20" the outer limb on the left seems a bit stiff so I scrap a bit of wood off to bring it around more. While removing wood I am careful to make sure that I maintain an even thickness across the width of the limb. In this case you can see that I am removing more wood from the edge of the limb that I have marked with a pencil.
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