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How would you deal with this side knot?
mmattockx:
Del's most recent video on the scruffy yew bow talks all about knots on the edge and how he deals with them.
https://youtu.be/L1YtBSpQqr4?si=h4clLUEVEmNTvm_P
Mark
Burnsie:
Possibly drill it out with an appropriately sized forstner bit and fill with some Total Boat - flexible epoxy??
Hamish:
You definitely don't want any flexible epoxy. It will peel at the glue line sooner or later. You want a really rigid glue line, bowmakers epoxy, urea formaldehyde, or resorcinol.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: mmattockx on August 11, 2025, 11:14:44 pm ---Del's most recent video on the scruffy yew bow talks all about knots on the edge and how he deals with them.
https://youtu.be/L1YtBSpQqr4?si=h4clLUEVEmNTvm_P
Mark
--- End quote ---
Ya I just watched this one. It’s great. Thanks to Del!
WhistlingBadger:
Thanks, guys. Del's video is really helpful--which ones he's concerned about and why, and what he does with the problematic ones.
So. Looking closely at this knot, a few things I notice: It's very solid--no bark around it or pith in the middle. It is more toward the belly than the back. And it's about 1/2" across both ways, probably too big to just ignore. There does seem to be a little crack toward the middle, and a much smaller sub-knot underneath. Here's a better close-up of the knot.
I'm wondering if my best option is to just carve it out, approximately where the pencil line is, and hope there's enough wood left to not make a hinge...maybe put some extra sinew on that spot. The back is highly crowned, and I'm hoping to get about a 50#er out of this, so I'm not sure how much wood I'll have to remove from the rest. Thoughts?
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