{"id":268,"date":"2013-02-08T00:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2017-09-16T00:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T08:28:44","slug":"ash-bow-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Ash Bow (&#038; jig)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1408.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend roped me into archery as a hobby, and instead of buying a bow, I decided to make my own.<\/p>\n<p>Making the bow was easy enough. \u00a0Picked up some ash wood, cut it to shape, and then rasped and sanded down to a smooth draw. \u00a0I picked up some actual bowstring string for the bowstring, because why the heck not.<\/p>\n<p>Made up that jig pictured there to show me the curvature of the bow at certain weights. \u00a0I&#8217;d hook the string on one of the screws, then step back a bit and look to make sure the curve was smooth and even.<\/p>\n<p>Took it out for quite a few test shots. \u00a0I&#8217;m a terrible marksman, but I was able to get a large majority of the arrows stuck into the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend roped me into archery as a hobby, and instead of buying a bow, I decided to make my own. Making the bow was easy enough. \u00a0Picked up some ash wood, cut it to shape, and then rasped and sanded down to a smooth draw. \u00a0I picked up some actual bowstring string for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ash Bow (&#038; jig)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}