I hope everyone has visited the St. Jude's Auction Forum. There are a lot of very generous donations from forum members and sponsors. Everyone should take a look at the 5 pages of donated goods. If you are a member of Trad Gang there is something for you there. Plus it is for a great charity. The success of this auction really defines the terrific people on this site, both bidders and donors.
Last year I was fortunate to win an item donated by Brian Halbleib from The Bowyers Journal.
It was a complete selfbow kit including a drawknife, scraper set, ferriers rasp, tillering string with dual leather cups, Bowyers Journal t-shirt, Bowyers Journal subscription and a terrific Gary Davis osage stave.
I won the kit for a friend, Scott, who was interested in making his first selfbow and this was a perfect way for him to start even though I would be leading the construction (now that's funny!).
Since Scott has a legitimate 30" draw I was a little nervous about using the 65" stave in the kit so I bought another stave from Gary Davis at Mojam that was 70" long for a little insurance. Plus I got to keep the shorter stave
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We got the bow tillered but there was an "oops" area of some overzealous sanding that developed a small crack while shooting it in and before adding the finish.
After some superglue to the crack I added a sinew patch (per mentors Dano and Scifres):
More to follow.
Topic: 2006 St. Judes auction bow (Bowyer's Journal) (Read 549 times)
