Hannah was surprised and very pleased with her new bow
...except she is left handed and the bow is right handed.
I guess I didn't listed well enough when I should have. The hard part about it was getting Hannah to give it back to me to take home to fix the problem. Actually, had I known(listened
) she is a lefty I probably wouldn't have reprieved this bow for the project so I guess it's true that things generally happen for a reason.
The fix should be easy enough. I will reshape the handle after rasping down the cut in shelf and add a leather rest(shelf) on the other side. It's a nice rainy day today so I'll have a chance to get the repair started.
Thanks for all the nice comments. I have reprieved other bows like this on a few occasions before and see it as a good idea, especially for the newer bowyers out there. You get to examine old problems and come up with a remedy down the road that will give you clearer thinking and a remedy for a problem situation from an earlier attempt. I even save broken bows and study them at a later date. This will let you what went wrong in the first place and with a clearer mind fine a solution to the problem that caused the break. I still have the first osage bow I ever made that broke when it was way over drawn by a novice. I still look at the break on occasion and realize that it broke right where is was supposed to when overdrawn. If you accept your failures as failures then they are failures. If you look at them as learning experiences and achieve knowledge from them then they are not failures but learning experiences that will keep you in a positive direction in when making future bows.
I didn't have a chance to get a full draw pic this weekend but as soon as the handle is reworked and the finishing touches are done, I'll get a good pic of Hannah and her new bow and a good full draw pic with Hannah to go along with it.
