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Offline hunter255

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New to Selfbow Building
« on: July 04, 2012, 11:09:53 am »
This is my first attempt building a selfbow. I have built bamboo backed, Board bows, Laminated bows but the selfbow is by far the most challenging to build. Here are a couple of photo's of the stave and rings. Please let me know which ring i should chase. I appreciate the help.   Thank you Steve




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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 11:29:54 am »
All of those rings look good to me.  That looks like a fine piece of osage.  Good luck with it.
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Offline beetlebailey1977

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 11:33:06 am »
Pick one and go for it.....they look good.  Just be very careful around knots.  Use a scraper there.  You will get they hang of it with the drawknife.  Take your time and don't be in a rush.
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 11:45:55 am »
Yep.  They are all pretty similar looking.  Scrape away the top ring from end to end for practice.  Then the next one the same, and so on.  Stop at the point where you have one continuous ring, unviolated end to end.  Looks like a really good stave!
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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2012, 07:30:17 pm »
The same rules apply - even thickness and width tapers :) Easy.........
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Offline Pat B

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 09:01:09 pm »
I'd go to the first clean ring you can get to.
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Offline soy

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2012, 01:35:44 am »
Nice piece! Take your pic start toward the top so if a woops occurs you can move down to the next...man have fun and keep is posted  ;)
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2012, 09:43:41 am »
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Offline Fred Arnold

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 04:12:48 pm »
That is a nice consistent stave from the looks of the end shown. I agree with everyone else that you could take your pick but if the stave is deep enough I'd shoot for what looks like the 5th late wood ring, the one just under the marks that look like dots in the pic. That choice might change depending on what the view from the sides and the other end look like.
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Offline hunter255

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Re: New to Selfbow Building
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2012, 08:53:58 am »
Thanks Everybody. I stripped the bark off. Now go down a ring for practice.
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