Petrichor
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Yes I’ve thought about it a lot actually. I wish I could show you how crazy the stave actually is. Because I dealt with cracking in some of the layers I had to go 6 rings down from the original ring I chased to find one that had no checking and cracking. I am nervous after reading a fair amount that re-introducing moisture at this point and really trying fight this craziness I will end up causing checking and lose it all together. Also did a lot of reading on dry heat also. This is actually why I haven’t touched the bow in a year. That and I was so mad and demoralized at the money I spent on it.Yep still some meat on that beauty start scraping especially on the fades. Have you thought about steaming it to straighten some twist and put in some back set to get a smoother shooting bow
ok enough whining. At this point and because it’s my first go. I thought I would do what I can through tillering. On that note I actually shifted the string alignment from completely off the bow to roughly down the middle of the handle just by tillering. Let me see if I can find a pic of this. A friend encouraged me to just finish it so that what I’m thinking. So first two pictures are the bow and string alignment on first string up.
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