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Muskyman:
Now that I’ve got the limbs straight, with help from several on this site, I’m now working on tiller and also put some tip overlays on it. Unfortunately I used some Osage scraps and that’s going to be a problem. I’ll put a photo up as to why. Tillered to about 20 inches with it on a long string..

Found this after I started shaping it.

Muskyman:
Tiller at 20 inches on a long string, about 47 lbs also have some limb twist I’ll have to address

Kidder:
Looking good. Don’t worry about that crack in the overlay. Sand it good so the dust goes in the crack and then fill it with CA and move on.

Weylin:
the crack shouldn't be an issue but I'd rethink the grain orientation of those overlays. Your string is going to want to separate those rings and split the overlay. Whenever I use osage as an overlay I always orient the grain so it's 90 degrees to that, like a quartersawn board instead of a flat sawn board, if that makes sense. It may be fine and give you no issue but if it were mine I'd take those off and do new ones.

Muskyman:
Actually I have had thoughts for both of those comments. Fill it with CA and taking them off and redoing. Going to leave them for now but might redo them later. If I take them off I’m guessing just sand them off, or is there a better way?

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