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Dogbane-less Hickory shorty
WhistlingBadger:
Finally done hunting and back to work on this thing. Going to full brace today. Pulling about 30# at 9". No crunchy sounds so far; I think I might have finally gotten this dogbane glued down. Finding myself rather distracted by the smell of roasting turkey. Happy thanksgiving! :G
WhistlingBadger:
Tillering. Something seems a little off, but I can't tell what. Guess I need to dig out Eric's gizmo and see what's up. In the meantime, any thoughts???
Pappy:
Looks pretty good to me, maybe bending a little more in left limb but over all pretty good. Pappy
superdav95:
Looks good so far. I agree with pappy might need little more bending on inner of right limb.
WhistlingBadger:
Well, I was puzzled but I am no longer. I had the limbs bending fairly evenly, then suddenly the right (top) limb was bending much less. I was examining the backing and found a crack in the backing on the left (bottom) limb. Dad gummit, or words to that effect. I might just steam the backing off of this, slap some rawhide and snakeskin on it to make it a kids' bow (the neighbor down the street wants me to make one for his kid for christmas), and get on with my life.
I hate to do this, gentlemen, but I think I'm going to have to declare dogbane a failure as bow backing, at least for me. I could try again but I just don't know how to do it any better than I did.
As WC Field said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a $*#& fool about it."
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