I got my hickory bow bending. This very is challenging for me, since it will hopefully be my second bow that actually turns out. Any suggestions are welcome. The limb with the 2 knots is going to have to be my top limb, due to the fact that if I flip the bow the string would lay good for a lefty and I'm not. Unless I heat the handle and try to straighten things out. I've got to keep the limb I originally planned for my bottom to be my top. I got this stave at a primitive skills gathering in northern WI. several years ago. I arrived a day after the event started and got the ugly duck nobody else wanted. I've since put up more staves of other species as well as more Hickory. I need to either turn this into a hunter or break it, learn, and move on. Any thought on heating? oil the handle? heat with heat gun and clamp or just finish as is?
