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[ajooter]

Coming along nicely Dubois....i agree with the others couple little stiff spots on the top limb.

[TimothyR]

Debois.  The yew bow is all done but for the handle wrap.  I'm going back on nights this weekend so I'll get to do some more work done and be able to finish another one. I've got some Osage to chase as well.

[Sidmand]

Got the tips flipped, and one of them popped a bit of a splinter on the belly, so I'm going to do some maple underlays.  Got some antler tines cut as well.  Letting the wood stabilize some, and back to the heat gun.  Some of the limb twist came back during the steam bending, so I got to straiten that back out again, and I need to even out the deflex a bit more too.  Then, on to the final serious tillering.

[Sidmand]

Hope my victim likes bumblebees, cause this bows gonna look a lot like one when it's finished out .  I think I'm going to blacken the tips and back with ferric acetate (vinagroon), but leave the belly unstained.  Black and yella, with maybe a yellow rawhide wrap.  I'm going to use some of the Osage shavings to make a yellow dye, and soak the rawhide for the grip in it to dye it nice and yella.

[DuBois]

I prefer honey bees. But that is looking good whatever you call it.

[ajooter]

I prefer bows...a little color is just a bonus!!   Cant wait to see her all dressed up Sid!

[Dakota Kid]

I hope that it doesn't mean that bow will only sting once then die.      Perhaps a yellow jacket would be a better comparison?

[Sidmand]

hah, no.  That's why I said 'bumblebee'.  Bumblebees can sting, and they don't die after stinging you, and it hurts like hell too!  I was moving some old hay bails one time, and there was a nest of bumbles in there, and they were very upset when I took their roof off.  And, they let me know just how mad they were, multiple times!

I actually like the old bumble - gentle bugs most of the time.  I hate me some yellow jackets though.  At least the bumblebees stung me for cause.  Yellow jackets are just jerks - been stung by more than I care to remember as a surveyor and just being out in the woods. 

[jeffp51]

It took some backtracking but I found the stix bow! That is a fine lookin creation you got there!

TimR, yours was lookin awful good too. How's it coming now?

Hey Janderson, did that walnut get straight or did you decide to leave it wonky?

I'll try to get some update pics of the progress if wife is willing.

what page was it on?

[bubby]

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[David Ewing]

Didn't make much progress from my last picture, but I want to make sure I am doing it right. I still need to take wood off on the inner 1/3 of the limbs, right?

[Knotty]

@David Ewing , tips are still looking stiff to me , and, unless it's an illusion, the right limb is bending a bit more near the fades

[ajooter]

Right limb inner half is stiff...left limb inner third is stiff.

[jeffp51]

This advice has been given plenty of times before, but I will give it again--if you are new to bow building, make yourself a tillering gizmo. It will tell you exactly where flat spots and hinges are.  It can't be fooled like your eye can.  It won't solve every problem (no good around the recurved tips or too close to the fades, for example) but it will really help you begin to see the bends.  It really helped me early on, and really helps me still.  Try it.

[mwosborn]

This advice has been given plenty of times before, but I will give it again--if you are new to bow building, make yourself a tillering gizmo. It will tell you exactly where flat spots and hinges are.  It can't be fooled like your eye can.  It won't solve every problem (no good around the recurved tips or too close to the fades, for example) but it will really help you begin to see the bends.  It really helped me early on, and really helps me still.  Try it.

Good advice!