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Offline scp

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Re: red oak bow, draw knife fail
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2016, 08:12:40 pm »
For board bows, a small block plane would be much better.
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Offline Pappy

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Re: red oak bow, draw knife fail
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2016, 06:51:26 am »
Like WGoat said, rasp is much safer, maybe a little slower, not sure on that but much safer. ;)
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Offline stuckinthemud

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Re: red oak bow, draw knife fail
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2016, 06:16:55 pm »
Nice sharp hand plane set fine works as well
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Re: red oak bow, draw knife fail
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2016, 10:15:59 pm »
Working wood like that, which I try to avoid, with a Draw knife I use the blade of a straight knife at a 90dg angle to the wood and pull like a big Cabinet Scraper. You can roll off some big curls doing this and not worry about digging in.
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Re: red oak bow, draw knife fail
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2016, 11:51:40 pm »
Yeah what mullet said. Also with a quality sharp farriers easp i can reduce the limb thickness in about 10-15 mins a limb
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