Hi everybody, this is the first time I write here, but I lurked the forum for months! English is not my first language, so please forgive me if my writing isn't always clear
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I'm working on my first bow from September, two hour this week, half an hour that week, in a very erratic way. It's a flatbow made from a small diameter elm sapling, I've used mainly a Mora knife and a Fiskar hatchet on it, so it's very rough, but now I've bought a small Surform (this
http://www.toppotsupplies.co.uk/ekmps/shops/toppotsupplies/images/surform01.jpg) and I've plenty of 40 grit sandpaper, so with enough sweat I can make it right!
![Cheesy :D](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
The problem was that one limb bent while drying, so the string was misaligned in a very strong way (the string was off the handle). I've streamed the final portion of the limb for half an hour on a water pot, but with pour results, so today I've streamed the limb for one hour and a half, and that was better, because the tip now seems aligned with the other one and the handle... but in my hurry I made a mistake: I've used the banister of my stairs, who was too hard and narrow, to straigthen the limb, and now there's a big hinge in the side of the bow...
The bow is 170 cm ntn, so I thought I can shorten it to 160 cm and work on the sides like I show in the pic with the red lines. Do you think I can save it, or it's firewood?
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