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Title: how about these limbs?(to bend or not to bend)
Post by: oneraindog on August 06, 2011, 12:21:00 PM
so we have gone from this

    (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5937303347_96a8a1c16c.jpg)

to this

    (http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/6014438349_07f82794ca_z.jpg)


i re spliced the limbs   and have been steam treating the limbs into some reflex to adjust for the pretty major deflex the resplicing created.

i did not use a form, just clamped the limbs to my bench at the right place with a block under the tips to press up the limb into reflex.

i have steamed them twice but because the one limb was already much more deflexed it drops off a bit more at the fades.

should i bring up the right limb to be more even or just work with it as is?

thanks for reading
Title: Re: how about these limbs?(to bend or not to bend)
Post by: Osagetree on August 06, 2011, 08:19:00 PM
EEE-yew
Title: Re: how about these limbs?(to bend or not to bend)
Post by: oneraindog on August 07, 2011, 01:39:00 PM
??

that good huh?
Title: Re: how about these limbs?(to bend or not to bend)
Post by: Mike Most on August 11, 2011, 01:23:00 PM
I am no expert, but I would work with what you have in the second picture. Working towards a floor tiller, shaping and such.

Wondering if maybe Pat B could give some suggestions on the riser area, as that may be a concern. (not sure if it could be backed for strength or not)

Your right limb seems to have a little RandD look to it. (which I like BTW) from what I understand a little more difficulty in the tillering factor.

Keep at it...
Title: Re: how about these limbs?(to bend or not to bend)
Post by: Osagetree on August 11, 2011, 04:39:00 PM
Sorry I meant no harm... My odd humor? Sometimes,,, I am the only one who gets it!

It looked like yew, and I guess I was trying to be funny.

I would go to the floor and see how it is bending, then on to the long string.