stuckinthemud
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Well it's been a bit more than a month, but I have been working steadily away on the next iteration. I'm using a much better piece of yew this time although the sapwood was very thick and I started off by reducing this thickness by a couple of mm. This means that the heartwood runs out to each end of the bow and provides a better ratio of sapwwod to heartwood. I would have liked to reduce it further but the lath was not thick enough. So, I'm pretty much at brace height, with only about 10mm of "set" where I didn't get the outer 2/3 of the bow moving quite as quickly as the inner 1/3. The next stage is where it all tends to go pear shaped (literally) so I thought I'd post an update before that happens :-D
