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Share your tips and tricks.
Chippintuff:
Looks good.
WA
mullet:
This thread is at the "Top".
Chippintuff:
Bring on the tips folks. You know a book full, from choosing bow trees, to cutting and making staves, to curing, to all the wood working to make the bow and tiller it, to making string, to making and straightening arrows and many many more things. Come on with it.
WA
bjrogg:
+1 I see they moved this to the top that's great. I'm not sure if it needs reorganization or not. I know for myself I typically go to the last page of these type threads and see what's new. If I want to rehash something I go through them till I find it. It would be nice to have the links to a more in depth thread you could look up. I'm just really hoping people add their big or little tips and tricks.
Bjrogg
osage outlaw:
Another tip.....Take some time to rough out a years worth of bow blanks. Leave them wide and long enough that you can make any type of bow from them. Take the limbs to an inch thick or so. Stash them inside the house where the humidity stays constant and mark the date on them. Give them a few months to dry out. When you start to use up these blanks replace them with new ones. Your bows will hold their reflex better and take less set. The humidity in your workshop or garage fluctuates with the weather a lot more than it does inside a heated and air conditioned house.
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