Gidget gets her sinew

[Pat B]

And here she is with the second course of sinew just added. After she sets up for a day or so I'll put her up over our hot water heater to cure for a month or so.

[burchett.donald]

  Pat, thanks for the build along...I have never sinew backed and this is interesting...That red streaked Osage is some hard stuff and with the sinew that should be a Deer Slayer for sure
                                                                                                                                 Don

[IdahoMatt]

Can't wait man.

[lebhuntfish]

Very  nice Pat. Are you going to wrap it like I saw in one of your old post? Can't wait to see the results. I'm planning on doing a reflex/deflex bendy handle very shortly myself.

Do you floor tiller your bows or full tiller them before adding the sinew?  Thanks, Patrick

[Pat B]

Patrick, I did not wrap this bow. Once the hide glue gelled I used my thumb to flatten it out somewhat. I tillered this bow out to 40#@20" before adding the sinew. I made one sinew backed bow by fully tillering the bow first and another one after getting to floor tiller but I think I prefer to tiller out a bit first then add the sinew.

[lebhuntfish]

Thanks Pat,  I think I will try that this time. I just floor tiller ed my last one and didn't get any reflex out of it. Patrick

[MWirwicki]

Nice B-A-A Pat.  I've used cow sinew quite a bit, lately.  It works well for me.  In fact, that snakey bow of yours is of cow sinew.  So I'm curious, Gidget?  Hope all is well.  Looking forward to your progress.

[Pat B]

Thanks Matt. All is well here. Hope so for you and your gang too.      Gidget was a belly split from the stave I made Island Girl from, Island Girl's little sister.

[burn em up chuck]

    very very cool

              chuck