Did you leave extra ring around the knot? Hard to tell if it is or if it is violated down to next lower ring. I wouldn't take any more off the side if that's what you mean by removing more. Best wishes.
I did leave an extra ring or two around that not and some of the bigger pin knots near the edges. Then I gouged through them in other spots. Then I took another layer off down to that ring. Then I found a spot where I was too high, and took too many off there.... and so on and so forth until I was basically out of sapwood. It was your standard, full-on novice massacre.
I'll back it or break it or both. I'm just chalking this one up to learning new techniques. Since its already way under poundage, I'm sure, I'll probably try my hand at tip overlays and maybe even reflexing the tips, just to get all the retarderation out of my system before I move on to a nicer stave. Good learning experiece. I'll put up pics of the whole debacle when I'm finished torturing it to death.
