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Offline Badger

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Re: Yew Bow
« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2015, 08:57:40 pm »
  Nice Mark, looks like you have been trimming down a bit!

Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: Yew Bow
« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2015, 10:15:40 pm »
Thanks guys

Maybe a bit Steve
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Yew Bow
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2015, 02:11:24 pm »
Nice yew bow Marc, sweet bend

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Re: Yew Bow
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2015, 06:11:39 pm »
Thank you

I've used dry heat on Yew before and it works well but this piece of wood was not subjected to any.  It started out with natural reflex and as you can see it still has just a bit in the pictures but it is straight right after taking it down
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Re: Yew Bow
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2015, 07:23:15 pm »
Awesome!
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