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What not to do, a perfect example

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osage outlaw:
Some of that fiberglass drywall tape should turn that into a fine hunting weapon. 

WhistlingBadger:
Steam some recurves into it and I'll be impressed.   (lol)

BowEd:
Over the years it's amazing what happens with bow making.Tools and forms used too.
I've got a 45" long/stiff handled 3/4" wide sliver of osage that got my first attempt of sinewing on it from well over a decade ago.Well before making any amount of self bows or learning how to tiller correctly just using a tillering stick.
I thought it quite the accomplishment to get those slight bends on those tips.
Gave it a nice rawhide covering too.
I remember it drew 50#'s at 20" draw.I figured this is it.I'll be ready to kill deer.
I think I made a string for it from artificial sinew.
Did'nt wait but about 2 weeks for the sinew to cure.First draw after sinewing scared the bejesus out of me from all of the cracking going on from the hide glue.
I filled the voids in the sinew job with hide glue.



It's been a long road but lessons learned.

Pappy:
You have come a long way Chris, looks a lot like my first and the description of the build sounds a lot like me also, cut a hickory, shaped it to look like a bow,put a string on and took wood off till I could pull it, it didn't break and I was so proud. Ugly as sin but did shoot, the next several didn't fair as well. :-[ ;) :) :)
 Pappy

bentstick54:
When you’re lucky, you’re lucky. This is a perfect example of experienced bowyers passing information on to help the inexperienced learn. We learn from what “ Not to do “ as much as the “ What to do “. Thanks Pearl Drums.

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