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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #45 on: February 14, 2013, 10:39:13 pm »
Continue marking the areas where the bow does not seem to be bending and lightly scrape wood off those areas...remember the "lightly" part.  It's better to have to repeat the scraping on a spot 6 or 7 times until it bends right, than it is to go in there and show the wood who's boss.  Trust me, the bow will quickly show you who is boss!   >:D

All this advice step by step is like those old movies where the private that hates the company commander is on the radio with the medical unit getting the step by step on how to operate on the old man, thus saving his life and suddenly they are best buddies for life. 
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #46 on: February 14, 2013, 10:39:22 pm »
I have a bathroom scale
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #47 on: February 14, 2013, 10:40:12 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on February 14, 2013, 10:39:13 pm
Continue marking the areas where the bow does not seem to be bending and lightly scrape wood off those areas...remember the "lightly" part.  It's better to have to repeat the scraping on a spot 6 or 7 times until it bends right, than it is to go in there and show the wood who's boss.  Trust me, the bow will quickly show you who is boss!   >:D

All this advice step by step is like those old movies where the private that hates the company commander is on the radio with the medical unit getting the step by step on how to operate on the old man, thus saving his life and suddenly they are best buddies for life.
but i dont hate pearl!
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #48 on: February 14, 2013, 10:41:45 pm »
Then you don't know him well enough yet!   >:D

Besides, Pearlie would be the Doctor on the other end of the radio, your patient is the stick of wood!
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #49 on: February 15, 2013, 08:09:19 am »
How long is it now? I should have asked that question already. Realize Im doing my best from where I am with what you have. Did you get the back edges rounded off? You will need a string 2-3" shorter than your bow soon.

 It could be much more complex. Im keeping it incredibly simple so you can shoot your bow this weekend and start thinking about handles, and tip overlays on yor next bow. Consider this a primer. 
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #50 on: February 15, 2013, 01:47:53 pm »
She stands tall at 63" with rounded corners
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #51 on: February 15, 2013, 02:49:36 pm »
Brace it low at 2-3" max, just get the string off the bow. If you rasped a good, even taper in you wont have any hinges and at that thickness and length you wont be too heavy to brace LOW.
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #52 on: February 15, 2013, 04:18:07 pm »

That's as good as I could get it, that's slack not brace.
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #53 on: February 15, 2013, 04:34:37 pm »
Close enough. How does it feel when you pluck the string about 1"? Not too heavy is it?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #54 on: February 15, 2013, 04:51:22 pm »
I just re-read your note. I misunderstood it. Go ahead and tree it. Pull it to 12" and snap a pic.
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #55 on: February 15, 2013, 06:41:01 pm »
I tried that and my fraken hitch not slipped off and scared the everliving crap out of me malng me think my bow broke. Was I towing the know wrong or is something funky with my string?
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #56 on: February 15, 2013, 07:30:21 pm »
Tie a timber hitch. Look it up on google.
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #57 on: February 15, 2013, 09:06:21 pm »
To my knowledge that's what I was tiring, I must have been doingng it wrong,  Ill look it up after work
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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #58 on: February 15, 2013, 09:09:05 pm »
You probably started the knot on the wrong side of the main string. I did that 3 times a few weeks ago, until Cody pulled my head from my arse.
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Can't get started in making a bow
« Reply #59 on: February 16, 2013, 04:06:32 pm »

There she is at 12"
Whenever I took it off the tree it went from being tight against the belly to having 4" of slack, I take it this is my string streching and I just need to tighten it back up?
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