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Offline sleek

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #45 on: December 27, 2012, 06:14:13 pm »
You leave the staples in there.... and man what a stave! Please get more than one bow of that! And if you get a few staves... lemme get one from you.
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #46 on: December 27, 2012, 07:01:37 pm »
Quote from: turtle on December 27, 2012, 05:29:23 pm
You guys are giving me the urge to start cutting away at this perfectly good fence post........if i could only figure out how to get the broken staples out.


Thats one snakey fence post there. It's kinda like looking at a straight stave after downing half a paycheck at the liquor store and/or getting socked in the noggin 2 or 3 times.
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Offline bubby

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2012, 07:44:28 pm »
the only thing i've been avoiding is cleaning the shop, gotta make a path to get the wood and take it outside to work, Bub
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #48 on: December 27, 2012, 10:41:18 pm »
Wow Turtle, I've seen an awful lot of bodark fence posts and have never seen one with that kind of character.  Amazing.

George
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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #49 on: December 28, 2012, 09:14:00 am »
Quote from: sleek on December 27, 2012, 06:14:13 pm
You leave the staples in there....

Hmm....can i borrow your drawknife? ???
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Offline sleek

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #50 on: December 28, 2012, 03:32:22 pm »
Point taken....funny thing is, id let you. My drawknife is very stout, with a high angle edge. Also, those staples are rusted and weak I emagine? Even if not, it would go through them. I would just have to fix the blade later, which is easy. Sounds like you need to throw togeather a sacrificial drawknie out of old lawnmower blade or something....good luck!
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #51 on: December 28, 2012, 05:23:43 pm »
Not really avoiding, but trying to decide what it will become. I have a primo tollhouse stave from Timo. I'll have to post a pic when I get my laptop back from the computer tech.
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Offline steve b.

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #52 on: December 28, 2012, 11:35:11 pm »
I have a takedown osage bow that I did not align the limbs to the takedown sleeve very well.  I might try to salvage the sleeve for another bow which means I have to get the wood and epoxy out of it.
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Offline dbb

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #53 on: December 29, 2012, 09:25:26 am »
Quote from: steve b. on December 28, 2012, 11:35:11 pm
I have a takedown osage bow that I did not align the limbs to the takedown sleeve very well.  I might try to salvage the sleeve for another bow which means I have to get the wood and epoxy out of it.
If the sleeves are metal  its easy,just heat them until the epoxy start to smell foul and push the wood out.

/Mikael
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #54 on: December 29, 2012, 12:16:56 pm »
I've got one very similar to turtles fence post that I just pulled out the other day. It is on deck for one of my next three bows. Rings are super tight and has a wiggly jiggle all up and down both limbs so it should be a dandy.    Danny
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Offline sleek

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Re: what have you been avoiding?
« Reply #55 on: January 22, 2013, 05:33:25 am »
Well, I have a question. I am soon starting on my two staves, and this will be a drawn out process. However, I wonder, should I go for two bows, or splice the two staves to make one? They are both only 47.5 inches long. I only shoot a 25 inch draw, can shoot 24 comfortably, and dont like bows over 55 lbs. So, bendy handle, 45 lbs at 25 inches, 47 ntn? That's doable right? Or do I need to splice in some tips, or splice the two stave together?
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