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Offline Swamp Thang

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Re: D bow from the ground up
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2016, 10:35:20 pm »
How thick is that?
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Offline Thunder

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Re: D bow from the ground up
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2016, 10:53:55 pm »
I'm not sure about the Cedar Elm but I'm sure it's worth a try. There's not a whole lot of work put into these small saplings.  This one is 1 1/8" wide and 11/16" thick at the handle.
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Offline Swamp Thang

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Re: D bow from the ground up
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2016, 04:14:52 pm »
 So I got sick while hunting had to call it a day this is the only stave I managed to grab it's an elm. The decisions are top circumference 5 1/4" the bottom 6 1/2"  total length 100" enough for a few bows. Okay bark is stripped. Do we leave the cabium on to dry?
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Offline Thunder

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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2016, 10:33:47 pm »
Nice find....it might check on you if you don't seal it with something (ie white glue, shellac, polyurethane) You can take some of the cambium layer off now or later to leave a cool mottled effect.
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Offline Swamp Thang

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Re: D bow from the ground up
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2016, 07:38:47 am »
Follow your advice left a little on for contrast really cut it in half last night and it started to split along the stave so I finished cutting managed to split and save one of the longer halves the other I didn't split left whole and spread tallow across the surface. Oh and for how straight it was has some twisted grain.....
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Offline Swamp Thang

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« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2016, 08:46:53 am »
So the stave is roughed and pretillered I'll post pics soon
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Offline High-Desert

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« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2016, 10:11:21 am »
These build are great, love when they come together by input from everyone's ideas.
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Offline Swamp Thang

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Re: D bow from the ground up
« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2016, 09:48:31 pm »
Okay so having trouble finding a good resized that keeps enough quality to still see the detail. Bit I'll tell you this so far at 50"  pulling to 19" it's 42# with an inch and a quarter of set
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Offline bubby

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« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2016, 11:04:41 pm »
Just get a free photobucket account it resizes the pics for you
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