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Share your tips and tricks.
lebhuntfish:
Thats great advice Clint! I just wish I could follow that myself. I never seam to feel like roughing out that many staves at a time. Maybe a couple 3.
Patrick
bjrogg:
Good advice Clint and keep replacing those staves to.
This tip seems so simple that probably some of you already use it but her it is anyway. When trying to mark out the rough shape of my bows it can be difficult use a straight edge. Especially for tips if you bend in some recurve. I always have a couple hacksaw blades with my bow tools. I use them for lots of things from making initial cut for tip notches to scoreing surfaces for gluing. One of the things I use them for is a pliable straight edge for marking my bow.
Bjrogg
bubby:
Well in staves where straight is not the norm for edge thickness I make marks every 6-8" then using the back of the stave I hold the marker on the mark and take off connecting the dots. On the back profile find the centerline then take a piece of leather the width ya want and make a small notch in the center of it. Then just get the notch on the centerline mark and mark both edges. Then connect the dots
DC:
How do we decide what should go in "Tips and tricks" and what should go in "How to's and Build-a-longs"?
Pat B:
Tips and tricks is for those little time and work savers. The How To is for everything else. ;)
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