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Osage takedown bow
Muskyman:
Pappy and Hamish, both thoughts that have went through my head. I’ve even started chasing a ring on another billet. I’m going to try and highlight the side and see if I can tell if I went through the growth ring. If it looks okay I’ll continue with the build like Hamish said. The rings are pretty thick and I just can’t believe I went through it but, I’m prone to doing that kind of stuff.
Seems like every bow I start I end up messing it up somehow. I’m getting better and I do have a few I’m shooting. Either way I’ll keep plugging along.
Thanks Mike
Hamish:
With rings as thick as you have, then if you went through a whole growth ring, there would be a noticeable deep furrough creating a lowspot.
It doesn't look like that so I bet you are fine.
Very easy to cut through moon rings on thick ringed osage, especially if you've mainly worked only thinner ringed stuff. Done it plenty of times myself. You need to take a different mental approach, and consciously remember how thick it is, and when you see some chalky stuff, that its time to stop working that spot, rather than plow right through. Easier said than done, sometimes.
Jim Davis:
It's not as though you have an abrupt perpendicular violation, even if you have worked into the thickness of the ring. I'd just continue as it is. If it breaks during the making or after, you have only lost time by trying--your other option was to start over anyway.
Muskyman:
I figured out the color change. It was simply that I hadn’t taken enough wood off to get to the ring I was chasing. Cleaned the sides up and highlighted it and saw it right away. Thanks for heads up Pappy.
Then I did something really stupid. Was thinning down the last 8-10 inches after I marked it with a compass and started filing away with my Shinto file and then it hit me I’m filing the back of my bow. Luckily I don’t think I made it through the ring. Like I said earlier, I’m always doing something to jack my bow up but this is about as dumb as a guy can get. Anyway I decided to go on with it. I have it on a long string and bending now. Put it away for today and will see if I can finish destroying it tomorrow.
superdav95:
Bend looking good so far mike.
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