I'll be posting pics soon. Hello all, I have a dilemma I working on this cherry stave and I have gotten it to a roughed profile width wise and thickness wise. I decided to chase a ring and it took 3 hours
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and i still went in on a small part does this matter
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will it be fine.The stave is 72 inches long. Also i roughed it 1 inch at handle to 7/8 at mid and 3/4 at tips thickness wise. I always mess up here with staves never boards. I can never seem to keep a taper to the tips and in the end it becomes scrap. Any advice would be helpful and also this is the bow for my school project.
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Also the stave bell has a few pin knots only 1 cm to 3 cm big on the belly will this affect the performance of the bow. Also the tools at my disposal are a farriers rasp,two cabinet scrapers, stanley surform, draw knife thats kind of dull and tear belly of the cherry stave
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, and soon coming sandpaper. Thanks for any help and advice.
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