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Offline Pat B

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2014, 04:12:20 pm »
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.
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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2014, 04:59:58 pm »
  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 8)
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2014, 11:00:23 pm »
Can't wait man.

Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2014, 11:42:28 pm »
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
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #34 on: October 15, 2014, 11:49:10 pm »
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.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #35 on: October 16, 2014, 12:07:26 am »
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
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #36 on: October 16, 2014, 09:16:27 am »
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.
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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #37 on: October 16, 2014, 09:47:22 am »
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.
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Re: Gidget gets her sinew
« Reply #38 on: October 19, 2014, 10:17:42 am »
    very very cool

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