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Help on a dogwood fltabow's tiller (edit: bow explosion and finished pics)

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Weird dude with a bow:
Thanks for the kind comments guys

there's nothing like the help other bowyers eyes when you get home form 8 hours of works behind a computer screen and try to figure out what's wrong in the curve of a bow in a dark basement

I will try to finish this bow today and post pictures this week-end if it survives the first 200 shots

Weird dude with a bow:
So
I finaly finished the bow and took it in the wild to get some good pictures of it. Along with the snow leopard and the sasquatch, selfbows are probably one the most difficult thing to get a good picture of...yet here they are:











it was about 55 pounds at 26. It gave up after a few shot. the crack occured at 2 inches from the top tip. As I was shapping the bow with the drawnife, this spot felt more brittle, and nor me neither my drawnife were able to figure out the fiber's direction around that spot that had a lot of "missed shoots". At examination, the wood feels very porous where it boke off, it was probably already dead when I harvested it.



 S**t happens, onto the next one !

bjrogg:
Dang that was a nice looking bow sir.

I would definitely blame that one on the wood. That spot looks bad from the picture.

Maybe you could shorten it up a little?

You did good. Don’t let the break get you down

Bjrogg

airkah:
Tiller looked great! Bow was beautiful! So sorry it failed!

superdav95:
I agree with bj.  You might be able to sorted it up.  It was looking great.  Too bad. 

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