I Love My New 15" Ang Khola Villager !!!!!!

coote said:
I know what you mean about taking off too much wood C.S.Graves. I have made a lot of primitive bows, and I only have a few survivors. It is very easy to reduce a nice 45 pound bow to a 25 pounder with over-enthusiastic use of a big blade. Sometimes I've gotten away with using a hatchet (nowadays it might be a khukuri) for the whole job....but it is probably better to take off the last few hundreths of an inch with a scraper or something.
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Most likely, but at least in your case, it was a bigger blade involved, and bows typically have a higher strain put on them than a short hatchet handle. I wish I could say I had a similar excuse! :D
 
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