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Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Reworking An Osage Bow
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2014, 03:45:46 pm »
10 cooks and 20 recipes.  What to do?  If you must - clean up the back, put down some rawhide, and reduce weight like Pearl suggests.  If it were me, I would just build another - - you will likely be happier in the end with the results - and you will still have the bow that made meat.   
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Offline Sidmand

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Re: Reworking An Osage Bow
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2014, 04:06:48 pm »
I agree with the latter posts - not sinew, just a rawhide back.  If you still have that doe's hide then you have the rawhide you need right there, and you get the sentimental value you were looking for.  I'd be real reluctant to remove anything with a belt sander as well.  Belt sander sounds like a good way to lose to much weight or jack up your bow.
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Offline bubby

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Re: Reworking An Osage Bow
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2014, 04:43:41 pm »
Have you done a sinew job before, cause it is messy, labor intensive and quite frankly for me a general pain in the rear, if I'm gonna sinew a bow I try and design it for sinew I'd do as Pearl suggested
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Offline RAU

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Re: Reworking An Osage Bow
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2014, 05:43:20 pm »
Yes I've done a few Sinew jobs. I've always used Knox gelatin for hide glue. I don't mind the process at all, not a huge fan of processing the stuff but laying it down I don't mind. That said I'm liking this rawhide idea a lot! Thanks guys!
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