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Yew Recurve Build-Along
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After getting to the bottom of the crack and evening up the rest of the fade area to match, my fades or extended greatly, so this may change things along the way.
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it looks like my fades will be 4" long each, which really limits my working limb, so I will allow the fades to do a bit of work, so it may be tricky.
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After recurving, where I left the tips wide, and what looks like good alignment, I will narrow the tips to just over a half inch at the tips.
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I used to wait to put the tip overlays on, but I have had the string split out the by the string grooves where I didn't round it. I dont round the string grooves or it leaves small glue gaps where I glue on the overlay. Overlays aren't much work, so I dont mind doing them, even if everything doesn't work out in the end.
This will be my first time tapering the tips versus just gluing on the overlays to the sapwood. I measure 1/4" from the back and mark it, then 2" from the tip, and connect the line and saw off with a Japanese razor saw, and using a file, I make sure the area to receive the overlay is perfectly flat. Then I just glue on a black off my material, here is african blackwood. Then wrap in a strip of innertube.
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Once the tips are dry, I mark off what I need removed, and saw off with the razor saw, and using a rattail rasp, cut in my string grooves.
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