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A splice badly cut, a newbie tip

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WhistlingBadger:
Great advice, Eric.  I've never done a splice, but I'm going to try another juniper/sinew bow this winter, and long bits of juniper are rare as hen's lips.  So it might come in handy.  Heat can do some amazing things.

Eric Krewson:
I have spliced a new limb to the handle of a broken bow a number of times and glued on the pattern on each part exactly as it was. I file the excess wood down to the former bows handle profile.

Here is an example;

Eric Krewson:
I should have added this picture of the broken bow's handle before I cut a splice.

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