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Offline chamookman

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Bow blunders..........
« on: January 03, 2015, 04:50:38 am »
OK Guys and Gals - time to fess up and regale Us with Your worst Bow Boner. Mine was during a Bow Class. I was showing how to file in string groves and had a students stave in My hands. As I was Yakking and filing I heard chuckles coming from both Gary and Matt - yep I had filed them in backwards :-[. Good thing the stave was plenty long and quickly fixed, while I was wiping the Egg from My face  :laugh:. What say You ? Bob
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Bow blunders..........
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2015, 09:32:27 am »
I was building a recurve years ago and bent one tip up and one down.  :o  At least nobody else was there.  ;D
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2015, 09:53:40 am »
Mine has to be ruining a perfect ERC stave Eddie traded me, not long ago. I reduced the profile to 2", THEN reduced sapwood..................bad idea gang. You will end up with a super duper narrow bow by the time your sapwood is reduced to 1/4-3/8" thick from 1". That hurt as it was a beauty of a stick of ERC. I ended up tillering out a sweet 70" bow full of chrysals.......:(
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Offline Eric Krewson

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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2015, 10:12:53 am »
One thing I do occasionally is to reduce the belly of a stave to an inch or so of thickness before I chase a ring on the back to speed up the drying process. I have learned the hard way this is a very bad idea, I often find a flaw in the back that forces me to go down multiple grains and end up with a stave that is kiddie bow thickness when I get done.
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Offline mullet

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Re: Bow blunders..........
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2015, 12:40:36 pm »
ooooh!  :'( That was the prettiest piece of ERC I've ever seen. I didn't do anything to a bow, but I did chop enough feathers for a dozen arrows before I realized I chopped them all backwards.
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2015, 03:30:22 pm »
I have problems with bows jumping off my bench when I turn around.  Especially reflexed bows.  My biggest goof was burning a bunch of osage staves when I first started cutting bow wood because I thought the rings were to thin for bows.   
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Offline sleek

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Re: Bow blunders..........
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2015, 03:46:26 pm »
Mine is that I still haven't learned to stop trying to make bows. I have cut nocks backwards, almost made to male splices on a set of billets ( wood doesnt swing that way ) cut the shelf on the wrong end, cut shelfs.... the list is long and hard earned.
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Offline bushboy

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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2015, 03:47:34 pm »
Recently I cut a Z style handle only to find out I did it for a left hand shooter.
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Offline Chief RID

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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2015, 03:49:37 pm »
You guys are great. Keep'm coming! Just what I needed. best therapy I can think of. :-*
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2015, 06:44:35 pm »
Can I add another one to my list?  Today I made some wood jaw pads for a vise.  I had them fitting perfect.  All I had to do was counter sink the holes and install them.  Yep, I counter sunk the wrong side of the pads  ::)
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Offline bow101

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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2015, 07:02:06 pm »
Cut in the arrow shelf for a leftie.  And cut in a shelf on center when I wanted it over 1" above center.
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Offline sleek

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« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2015, 07:03:13 pm »
I once tossed about half the nails in a box away because the head was on the wrong side....
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Offline Danzn Bar

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« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2015, 07:19:37 pm »
That's a good one sleek??  ???

I have cut the string nocks in backwards twice in a row.....on the same bow!!!! duh  :-[ :-[   :laugh:
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Offline osage outlaw

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« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2015, 07:39:19 pm »
For you guys that like to cut nocks in backwards Mississippi Dave invented a fancy way of fixing that mistake at the Classic last year.  Your string has to have a big loop for it to work right.





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Offline Danzn Bar

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« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2015, 07:42:13 pm »
Yep...that's better than a bowers knot, that shouldn't slip.....off.  :)
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