Rawhide Along

[soy]

Nice job! I have tryd it with an ace bandage and also tried it with the petting it down technique the question I have is how do you address the dents from the string wrap?

[JW_Halverson]

Sponge the rawhide with a wet cloth or even *gasp* a sponge fulla water until the rawhide swells back up.  Then let it dry again.  This might not work so good if you use hide glue, but if you use TBIII or even TBII it's a cakewalk.

[soy]

Imagine wanting to put an oak veneer on a tabletop.  So you go out and buy a sheet of 3/4 inch oak veneer plywood and glue it onto the table, oak side down.  Now all you gotta do is to scrape off the 3/4 plywood!   

THAT describes the process of putting dog chewies on a bow, to me.

I find you get better application and a cleaner glue joint when you do it in that way ...at least that's how I do my veneer application

[JW_Halverson]

You are not a soybean. You are a nut. Somebody sic a squirrel on him!

[soy]

 

[Don Case]

How flat does the back have to be? Can you leave a slightly proud knot and rawhide over it? I guess this is a "that depends question" but?

[bluegill68]

Don,

You can get away with allot in fact dips or creases are tougher than knots or bumps.

BG

[Bryce]

How flat does the back have to be? Can you leave a slightly proud knot and rawhide over it? I guess this is a "that depends question" but?

As long as there's no bubbles or gaps sand that knot nice and smooth with easy transitions and you should be good to go.

[steve b.]

Don,
I'd rather rawhide around the knots as long as they are healthy.  Here's a pic where I went over one knot that I had smoothed out (mid pic) and others that I cut the rawhide to go around.  Otherwise the rawhide will create a tent and some air space around the knot.

[mwosborn]

Good post!