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Grain orientation on stave
WillS:
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--- Quote from: WillS on April 02, 2017, 06:19:53 pm ---I'm now in the same boat with elm - I'd give away body parts to get hold of good amounts of Wych elm but it's just not available where I'm based!
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We've got loads of it growing in the verges here (Warwickshire). I've got a couple of spare staves if you like - how about a kidney? >:D
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I've got more yew than I know what to do with. Currently got about 30 staves of really good stuff seasoning, and an entire school grounds of more when I want to fell it. If you've got good quality Wych elm I'd be more than happy to trade.
Ruddy Darter:
I took the belly down to final dimensions, took it tight and lost a couple of mm at the centre so weight lost, still wide by 3 or 4mm so I'll keep that on and just round.
It's got a nice even flex and bounce throughout and I am feeling quite happy and hopeful compared to earlier, I was thinking following the twist was a bad idea and was going to chuck the towel in, but how it worked out with the angle to the back it has left extra belly wood on one side so should bend in the right direction, seems to flex that way already, and with leaving on the extra bit of width I should be able to control the direction of bend better when tillering, here's hoping anyway. :) no real need to muck around with heat now.
Next step, dig out and glue in knots, round off belly and clean up back, then start to tiller. I think I made good ground today and glad I didn't chuck in. :BB
D-flex seems to of lessened, put up against straight edge it has a little over an inch.
(Also found a pic of top view of stave, leather tie marks where I sawed off end with split sapwood.)
R.D.
willie:
--- Quote ---I took the belly down to final dimensions, took it tight and lost a couple of mm at the centre so weight lost
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Are you working from straight from the printed plan to final dimension? I have learned (the hard way), to leave a little extra at the center handle area, as it comes around last during the tillering process. I actually would hold off on the belly rounding in the center third of the bow, until I had a chance to look at the overall bend from a distance.
Lucasade:
Will - pm sent
Ruddy Darter:
I did have some time helping a bowyer for a weekend a couple of years back and liked his method, and from chatting a few years back on the Ewbs site some bowyers like to get some movement central(first bend to the bow) and work out to the limbs and limb tips, albeit only slightly moving. I think I'd like to work this way, centre outwards for a full compass bow, that's how I plan to work it, just my preference.
So I'm going to round it all off, get it moving slightly centre working outwards. That's my plan.
R.D.
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