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Weylin:
sanding is the safe way. I use my belt sander. It just takes a couple seconds.  You can pop them off with a tap on a hatchet at the glue joint but you risk catching the grain of the bow and splitting into your bow. don't ask me how I know that.

Muskyman:
Okay, I won’t ask.  Also, your absolutely right about the grain on the overlays .. that’s obviously a experience thing, I never even thought about it till after I saw my issue.. Definitely learning by my mistakes. Probably just let them stay till I get the tillering done.

Kidder:

--- Quote from: Weylin on April 01, 2023, 07:02:21 pm ---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.

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Good catch. I hadn’t even looked at the grain orientation. 

Muskyman:
Yeah I blew that for sure. Funny thing is, it was right in my face.

Muskyman:
Tillered to 30 inches today.. still a little heavy at 52 lbs. target weight is around 50 lbs. I figure sanding should get me there. Got to fix the tip overlays and shape the handle. Also work on the fades and a few other things but, getting close..

I did put  a little more bend in the outer third of the left limb after the picture.

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