LukeWebb
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Slinging Rocks!
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New Brunswick Canada
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Howard hill style, solid raised handle with flat limbs. He keeps his bow woods secret as he has been doing it a long time, (about 50 years,) and knows some things he likes to keep to himself. But he uses a hardwood on the inside and softwood on the back generally, hardwood to compress so it doesn't crush, softwood to bend on the outside, but that isn't a solid rule and he does a good few one piece bows. I believe this was a hardwood/softwood laminate though. The biggest thing that happens when we are selling at the market is people coming up, grabbing a bow and trying to pull it WITHOUT STRINGING IT... I just can't comprehend the thought process behind that...how could that possibly work? The string is hanging slack and sliding up and down, a moments examination and you should be able to figure that right out, but I think they are just acting on impulse. It really happens a lot. You have to be really careful of people dry firing it as well, which I do understand them doing as you really need to be told that, and over-drawing is nasty as well, a big guy might take a short bow from his son and pull it back 36 in. and wammo! that's happened more than once.
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