John, that is a nice looking bow. I love slim/skinny osage bows.
If Steve Martin, best selfbowyer around, saw it he'd tell you to get sand paper and "cup it up" in your hand and go over the belly to eliminate those straight edges. He hates them, he thinks they can be an invitation for splinters to start up in those areas. It will make the bow look better too.
See you guys on the 15th, God willing and the creek don't rise. I hope Ron will be there making strings. I need one.
This is Dennis. That looks pretty good. The tiller looks real nice. Jose is right about rounding the sharp edges. If I was you though I would leave as is. It looks a lot like my first bow. Mine looks like a stave that I turned into a board. Sometimes I like to get it out and compare it to my current bow. Yours is a good bow that looks to shoot good also.
Someday I'd like to meet Steve Martin and see some of his bows. DEN
Well, here's what you should do. It's a bit high weight you say ? Round those corners off the radius of a garden pea. I read that somewhere a long time ago and it's sound advice. If you leave corners proud like that you are inviting disaster. Eventually it will want to lift a splinter somewhere. Just break the corners like a pea as above. In other words about 1/4" radius , back and belly. Tiller looks A-OK and won't be affected at all. A good radiusing will knock off about 4 lbs max. Puts the bow within your weight range and protects it. Once rounded off, burnish the corners with a hard steel rod (good slick screwdriver, round shafted or even glass Coke Bottle) and light sand and finish whatever finish you want. All this also protects against a fret on the limb somewhere. You've come far Pilgrim, now you just need to finish it.But all in all a good job.
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