Well it looks good WB. I know you didn’t get what you were hoping for, but I’m sure you learned a lot from it.
Curious why you didn’t try sinew after the dogbane experiment didn’t work?
Bjrogg
Thanks, it was a good learning experience. The decision not to sinew back was a couple of things. The backing broke on the same limb a couple times, and I did a lot of scraping on the opposite limb trying to even out the bend, not realizing I was fighting a partially broken backing. So the bow got way lighter than I intended. But the main thing was that, by the time I finally gave up on the dogbane, I already had a nice juniper bow roughed out. I've heard so many glory stories about juniper and sinew, I decided to put the work into that instead of a bow I was never going to be completely satisfied with anyway.
