Even at 1/2" thick and 1 1/2" wide the limbs are too stiff, hardly bending at all at floor tiller. So I narrows the limbs to 1 3/8, marking the knots near the edges so I can leave a little width there.
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then I reduced the thickness to 7/16" with the farriers rasp. Then I removed the tool marks with the scraper keeping the belly radiused. At this point I decided I'd explain how I use a scraper. If you use the scraper just perpendicular across the limbs it can cause undulations, waves, on the belly
![](https://i.imgur.com/uWGypm2.jpg)
so by alternate the scraper from straight, then cocked to the left
![](https://i.imgur.com/J05xJxm.jpg)
then to the right on alternate scrapes
![](https://i.imgur.com/MZOQBjp.jpg)
it helps to take down the crest of these unwanted waves by hitting the high spots created by using the scraper only perpendicularly.
I also found these hanging from the bow bench where I keep them. When my daughter comes to visit she and I stay up late drinking red wine and watching zombie shows on TV like Walking Dead and Fear of Walking Dead. One year for Christmas she gave these to me. Being a hunting forum I thought them appropriate.
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more to come...