As the title says, I'm starting a new bow. This may turn into a follow along as I'm tryin to take pics of my progress. I am by no means an expert, heck I'm not sure I have even left the novice category yet!
I don't usually post up the stuff I make cause it just ain't on the same level as what you guys are making. Ya'll make some fine bows and I gotta say thanks, cause I've learned a lot from trolling everybody's posts.
So here we go. Got me a piece of Osage been hangin out in my stash for bout 4 years. It's 73" long right now with 2 1/2" of natural reflex; I'm hoping to keep most of that when its all said and done.
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Hope that worked. So I spent 4 hours today getting the back chased. Fairly clean stave with some pins here and there and a nice character knot that will be right about center of one of the limbs.
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Took about an hour for me to work that knot. Finally wrapped some 180 grit around the head of a wood screw to get down to my ring. Screw also worked good for digging out the punky stuff.
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