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Yew Recurve Build-Along
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After I have taken the sapwood down to rough thickness with a drawknife. I chase a final ring with the cabinet scraper. Here I didn't choose a deep enough ring to chase, so I have a few violations, about three rings. I am not concerned about this, so I will leave it.
High-Desert:
Next, I will recurve the tips, I have always done this before the tillering process, usually just getting the limbs bending a bit, and thinning the limb tips to the right thickness to allow bending. Chasing a ring on the belly side where the recurve will be, helps prevent split out. I start by soaking the limb tip in water overnight, then boiling the tips for about an hour before bending. I set up my form before bending so I can get it bent as fast as possible. Then leave it in the form for a day while I soak the other side.
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After both sides have been recurved and dried a few days, and I have the limbs bending a bit, it typically do an initial heat treating, along with a bit of straighting. When doing relatively drastic recurves, string alignment can be an issue, so I get everything lined up in this initial heat treating. I may have to do this several times to get it all lined up. Its important to get things lined up before getting to brace so the string will stay on the recurves. There will definitely be some sine tuning along the way with a series of heating treating and tweaking to get everything lined up.
High-Desert:
This first heat treating is pretty aggressive, going pretty hot and not worrying too about much how hot I get the wood.
High-Desert:
Well, I did run into a problem, I ended up with a lateral crack near the sapwood, right in the fades. So I will take some wood out to see if I can get to the bottom of the crack.
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