Okay, work week from hell is over and I just got done with some more work on the bow. It was rainy this morning, so I worked in the kitchen for as long as I could before the wife let me know I was bothering her studies. Here's what it looks like now:
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| Still have some "smoothing out" to do on the sides of the limbs. |
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| You can see the slight round going up to the handle- this will get bigger later. |
So, it is vaguely more bow-shaped. I slapped the tillering boot on it to see if it flexed easier now that I took some material off:
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| The string on the boot is a bit loose, but it bends! On second glance, I should have not been in front of the book shelf, makes it hard to see the bottom of the bow. |
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| Bit easier to get it to bend this way... |
So, I've got to finish out the shaping and make my tillering tree before I get much farther on the bow. I did promise pictures of my string materials and jig, so here they are:
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| Goes from 48 to 70 inches right now, which should be all I ever need. |
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| Serving string and jig, and my two spools of string, in the colors of my alma mater. Go Lake State! |
I'll probably try to make my string tomorrow, as tonight I've got a social function to attend! Hooray beer!
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