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A bit of a rant
bowandarrow473:
Just use the fire to heat treat some arrowheads :)
mullet:
I'd use it on back-strap steaks.
JW_Halverson:
Doesn't sound like you will be cheating yourself outa much of anything. And maple is a mighty find firewood, windchecked or not!
Badger:
Sugar maple will fret, it needs to be worked a little more carefully than osage or hickory. If you had frets all over the limb I would say trash it. Because the frets seem to be isolated I would say it is tillering. This is a good opportunity for you to really fine tune your tillering. Check the mass on the bows that you allready completed and see what it is. We have a phrase around here we quote often but not often enough. " never bend the limb any further than what it takes to expose an area that needs work, this might mean two inches of bend. Try again!!
LittleBen:
--- Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on August 16, 2015, 01:48:55 pm ---Ha! I could speculate a dozen reasons. The fact is its not good bow wood. 68" x. 2.5" doesn't require near perfect anything.
--- End quote ---
Agreed 100% ... I've built poplar lumberyard bows at those dimensions. There's obviously something fishy going on there. Maybe it's actuslly soft maple? Regardless it's firewood.
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