Monthly Archives: November 2011

Stringers and stress-testing

Another productive day at the workshop. We started dry-fitting the stringers to see how the forward stem is going to look like. Bending the 2×4 cm pine stringers was made much easier by pre-bending them, but the ideal stringer should … Continue reading

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Arrow of time

Imagine a vectorized time, which could be pointed, say left. Why do we always talk about time going forward and backward anyways? Well, conventionally, we have pointed ours straight forward. The bow stem is in process of fitting onto the … Continue reading

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