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2022 Bow Trade - complete
superdav95:
Made some progress on this piece of hickory this morning. Did the heat treatment early in am and removed it from the form once cooled down about an hour. Pictured is my little heat treat jig for my heat gun. It’s getting a little charred from use. Will let it acclimate and rehydrate a bit before going any further with it. It held a real nice reflex baked in. I left the end of the tips a little long so I’ll trim those off later. Progress!
Cheers.
Kidder:
Superdav95 you’re cracking right along - that’s going to be an awesome bow! Mo_coon-catcher (and everyone else) recipients don’t know who is building for them. Just an fyi but I did have some questions about that.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Kidder on March 19, 2022, 01:37:27 pm ---Superdav95 you’re cracking right along - that’s going to be an awesome bow! Mo_coon-catcher (and everyone else) recipients don’t know who is building for them. Just an fyi but I did have some questions about that.
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Thanks kidder! It was a particularly nice piece of hickory so I need to do it justice. So far so good. At least this way I may have time do another if I have an unexpected failure.
Cheers
Jakesnyder:
So i cut this sugar maple down several weeks ago. Im going for an inuit sinew cable backed bow (similar to the one just found not long ago) I think itll do good where it will be going. I know some might be saying "several weeks old" but ive quick dryed sugar maple quite a few times with great success. And none or very little set. But at the end of the day im not going to send out a piece of junk so if im not confident in it i have some seasoned osage id use.
superdav95:
Jake. That should be a cool looking bow! I’ve yet to do one of those. Will be anticipating this build.
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