Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Stickhead on April 02, 2020, 12:37:35 pm
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Well, I was using a scraper to adjust my tiller, and since it was still pretty heavy, I was lazy and didn’t de-string it first, even though I was scraping near the tip. I must’ve nicked the string a couple times with the back of the scraper, and bang! Fortunately, my heart and my bow both survived better than the string. Another lesson learned.
(https://i.imgur.com/Pch6A05.jpg)
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Unstring while tillering? That would take forever.
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Put an edge protector on the scraper. Tape or a split piece of wire insulation. But you knew that, right :D :D
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Lesson learned...I hope. ;)
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Just turn the scraper so it's almost flat and use it more like a plow. There's little need to be working close enough to the nocks anyway.
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Just turn the scraper so it's almost flat and use it more like a plow. There's little need to be working close enough to the nocks anyway.
It has recurved tips, so the string was dangerously close a good ways from the tips. My bad.
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If i have to work close to the nocks, I unstring. If I have to work near the fades, I leave it strung. i use a bow stringer.
jawge
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Yup done that to. Sure will wake you up in a hurry.
Bjrogg
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done it and almost lost my front teeth
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I use a very small knife as my scraper when its strung. nothing has happened to me yet that hasn't been my own stupidity. ;D
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Good lesson. Glad you didn’t get hurt
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I think everyone does this at least once. I did it with a Bowyer's Edge scraper tool.
Surprising how it doesn't even need to be a very sharp opposite edge. Blue masking tape is so useful.
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Yeah
Looks like it cut it like a razor blade.
Can cut a length of shrink wrap , cut a side, slide it over back edge and hit it with heat gun. Put tape over top.
Little attention getter.
HH~.
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Been there done that more than once, I didn't cut the string all the way through just a few strands, it was still toast. I use scissors mostly for scraping now, no way to cut a string.
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I knew there was a reason to keep those junk scissors!
Hawkdancer
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Glad you are ok. I never work on a strung bow.