A friend gave me this stave. Took the bark off yesterday.
Ya, The fishing bug BITES you in the butt.😁😁Welp, life gets in the way and makes it difficult to keep at it.
Do you use your stringer to tiller, or a dedicated tillering string?It is getting a nice bend.
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Then after after this photo I put it in the vice to shave a little more and found a crack running from the belly into one side. It will definitely break at that point I’ll try some super glue in trying to save this bow.
So many issues with the stave, I think between the age of it when I received it plus me taking longer than I should with it stored in my hot garage is enough to dry this thing out. I have started to seal it each time i work on it but probably should have started that right away.