Please Read: All of the Questions submitted to 'ASK
a GOM' will be reviewed, however, because of time and space considerations,
we are not able to respond directly to every question, or publish
an answer to each one. Dean, Paul, Murray and the other Grumpy
Old Men will select from those submitted to be answered and published
here in a Q&A format. We will let you know when the Q&A has been
updated via the Stickbow homepage or you can check back here
periodically.
We are pleased to announce a interactive Q&A extension
to the Self Bow Forum: Ask-a-GOM. Visitors here are welcome to
e-mail us questions from anywhere along the spectrum of life's
vexing self, laminated and composite bow problems, from glues
to materials, from tools to practices, from patterns, jigs and
measurements to finishes.
Those with universal appeal will receive comprehensive answers
from our stable of experienced and opinionated GOMs. As the resident
GOM, I will select some questions myself, and pass along the
more difficult ones to guest GOMs. You will know some of these
guests from the Leatherwall. Others you will recognize as wooden
bow gurus of national prominence, and you will see them debut
in cyberspace here (provided, of course, that I get your questions
to them before they themselves come on line).
So, before you take that next scary step into foreign territory,
or before you risk repeating mistakes for the third and fourth
times, dial up a GOM by sending your questions to us using the
form above.