Author Topic: 1st osage selfbow, 1st attempt to fix hinge  (Read 4017 times)

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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: 1st osage selfbow, 1st attempt to fix hinge
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2019, 02:54:52 pm »
hey congtrats on your save,, nice work,, )P(

Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: 1st osage selfbow, 1st attempt to fix hinge
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2019, 03:13:48 pm »
I rarely build one anymore without heat treating. In any wood, Osage included. Better to treat before the set happens, but it won’t hurt now.
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Offline ohma2

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Re: 1st osage selfbow, 1st attempt to fix hinge
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2019, 02:30:57 pm »
Hopeing it holds up for you but full drawing a bow hinged that badly might come back to haunt you
hope it doesnt .