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Offline El Destructo

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2011, 10:17:10 pm »
Your not showing where it is in relation to the bending part of each Limb....there is a good possibility that You could leave it in there and Tiller it out with the Round right where it is...I would surely give it a go ...before I pulled it out....JMO
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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2011, 10:43:38 pm »
It is in the mid-limb, right where you should start tapering towards the tip.  It is about 1 1/2" thick still and the bullet is mushroomed out inside the knot.  As mush as I would like to leave it there, it just isn't possible.  I'm just hoping to be able to make it into a bow.  The growth rings aren't very good at all, so I am making it overbuilt and low stress.  I was just working on chasing a ring on it.  I feel like a surgeon working on somebody.  Here is what I have done on it so far.

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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2011, 12:12:26 am »
I bet it will be fine...here is a Picture a a nasty knot in one of mine....and it's 9 years old now! And the Rings were really thin and tight on this one...
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Re: Found a suprise inside a stave
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2011, 02:01:37 am »
That is the kind of holes I like in a bow. Sweet find right there.

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