The story of the bow :
A few weeks ago I "cleaned" my shop , you know the hack over the years you fill every corner with lots of stuff which you think " thats still good , will need it for.." so I through almost everything out of the shop , so as the stave's.
The stave's were sorted out, good ones to the left and the so so stave's to the right, the really good ones stayed in the shop.
Guess what ? this B L stave was one of the really good ones.- no knots , straight and nice thick rings .
It was a half splited trunk , ad one end was an big old over grown branch and I decided to cut that piece off , removed the bark and it still looked good.
But than , as I removed the sapwood more and more of that multicolored crooked wood was comming out to see , and as I followed the fibers I thought to my self : " What a little cheater stave have I got here
That thing will be a bow doesn't matter how it will look like , but it will become a bow."
One of the biggest problems was to "find" the rings,
look , the left side of the handle , no problem to see the rings:
but on the other side they do look
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