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Tag: wedge. tip wedge
Post #1816: Bow rehairing finale, fitting the tip wedge.
In brief: I finished rehairing a cheap fiberglass bow by making and installing a version of the tip wedge from this YouTube series by Gilles Nehr.
It’s crude. I used low-grade poplar wood from Home Depot, and shaped it using sandpaper.
But it works. My cheap bow is now (inexpertly) rehaired, as shown below.
The one thing I can say for sure is that this goes a lot faster once you have a little experience with it. Making and fitting the tip wedge took less than an hour.
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