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Inaugural “junior” bow trade
stuckinthemud:
That's settled then, mid to late September as a provisional deadline OK by everyone?
Aaron1726:
:OK
sleek:
I've started chasing a ring on a very nice osage stave. Of course, this stave, being over 10 years old, and having left the bark on, is riddled with bug holes. So it's going to be an adventure in reduction to get below the bugs, and see what happens then. I'm trying to post images, but I'm struggling to get the file size down.
mmattockx:
--- Quote from: sleek on February 12, 2024, 11:40:28 am ---I've started chasing a ring on a very nice osage stave. Of course, this stave, being over 10 years old, and having left the bark on, is riddled with bug holes. So it's going to be an adventure in reduction to get below the bugs, and see what happens then. I'm trying to post images, but I'm struggling to get the file size down.
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Use a third party hosting site and you don't have to resize anything. I use Imgur and it works very well, from your phone or desktop computer. A major bonus is the pictures are then big enough for us to actually see something, the forum hosted pictures are so small they are typically not much better than a thumbnail.
Mark
sleek:
Thanks. When my wife gets home I'll ask her to show me how to do that.
I've got the bow laid out. This took some head scratches. I'm having to avoid knots and bug holes Of course thats not entirely possible. So I'm judiciously putting them where I feel they will do the least harm. I've got 3 holes going into the recurve on one limb, as it doesn't flex, I'll be certain to just make it a little thicker to make up for it. Also there is a knot right where a recurve will be on both limbs. I've never recurved a knot before, this will be interesting. I've made character bows before, and I've made high performance bows, but never one that was both. The stave has some prop twist, and squiggles in the limbs. This is going to be a challenging build. Of course, I have back ups if this doesn't work out, but I'll see this through first.
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