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Cleaned out a couple of knots on a fun stave and worked on getting it to brace height. I love the pillar technique because I can clamp down and use a "tiller gizmo" on each limb. After finding the stiff areas I can scrape away while it's still clamped. It sure makes for getting to brace height a bit easier on unique staves.
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Cool stave Goose. Looking forward to seeing the bow done.
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That looks a lot like a few of my better staves. Good work and good luck.
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Had a gracious wife that let me do some tinkering this morning and I got the bow now to brace height pulling 50# @ 20". It's coming along nicely and no creaks or groans.
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Pete: I bore out those holes because it was rotten wood. When I took it down to one ring last July I filled em best I could with titebond on the back but it was still just at floor tiller thickness. When I began working the belly the knots just gave way and instead of risking a potential crack coming from the rotted wood I just cleaned them out the best I could. I've seen some crazy bows with holes in the past. As long as you can tiller slowly and correctly working the bow in with each removal of wood osage can be very resilient.
Red Hill: The pillar makes it much simpler to get to brace height. Getting a good curve at brace makes tillering much simpler.
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After some tinkering I decided that the tips needed a bit more bend so I stuck it at the end of my caul for a little extra heat. I think I'll have to go slow on the other tip with the knot that is close to the end. It's filled with superglue and I dug out all I could before doing so. My future bowmakin son says its coming along quite well but he is going to have to work up to the poundage. http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/goosegossett14/680eae3b.mp4
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Success... So far. I think it's time to call it a night while I'm ahead.
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LOL Goose train that boy up right, its a cruel world out there. My daughter was trained right, she was one of the best natural instinctive shooters I had ever seen, made daddy proud. Then she brought this hairy leg boy home and the next thing I knew she went out and bought a new mathews. Now all daddy can do is set looking at the horizon, with a robe and a ring and a bamboo backed osage r/d waiting for her to get tired of slopping with the wheely shooters and come back home.
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