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Offline Buckskinner

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Re: Off center stave advise
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2022, 04:18:48 pm »
Thanks for all the help again, the stave is no longer off center!  Needs a few more coats of finish, but it's all wrapped up.  66" n/n and 51# @28", right about where I wanted it to be.  Wanted to knock down the red tone that hickory can give off, so I stained with a black aniline dye which actually made it kind of purple and then a nut-brown antique stain that I used on one of my flintlocks.   The black calmed the red and brought out the figure in the wood.   Unfortunately, my shoulder will not allow me to show a pic with it drawn, but I had my buddy draw it for me the other night and tiller looked real nice.

Offline BowEd

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Re: Off center stave advise
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2022, 09:02:25 am »
Very nice work...Love the looks of a cambium stained hickory bow.
BowEd
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Ed