This will be more of a simple follow along more than a descriptive build along,but if anyone has questions please feel free to ask and I will try to answer them the best I can. I grabbed this outta the shed ,don't know why cus its only 9 months off the stump and I have plenty of good ole seasoned hedge to use...ok youll see why it struck a fancy with me. Its from a 4-5" diameter tree,and it was split in half a few days after I cut it.
Heres what it looked like with the bark on from the front....not so bad
![Wink ;)](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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It has decent enough rings...not big,but 1/16" latewood with thin earlywood
![](http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/2013-01-09_16-30-10_457.jpg)
And heres what it looked like from the side
![Evil >:D](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
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So I chased a ring on it and laid out the front profile...it was a pain chasing up and over that big deflexed kink as the rings got super duper thin there...prob about 1/64" thin easy as a pass or two with the scraper would remove a ring.
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Time to take her to the bandsaw(im a cheater now),and here she is cut out
![](http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/2013-01-11_19-22-44_676.jpg)
I then drew some facet lines along each side to cut a rough side profile out and get rid of all that meat....back to the saw she went,and now all rough cut out to shape and length
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I made sure to shellac the back of the bow,if you don't theres about a 98% possibility of it checking on you if you took the same from an outdoor environment to an indoors one,no matter how long its been cut. I might reduce it down to floor tiller this weekend to dry out a lil quicker,and I did all this in a couple hours last night for some Friday night relief
![Grin ;D](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/grin.gif)