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Old 06-27-2013, 06:52 PM
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I had an interesting experience while attempting to switch frogs on these bows. I figured I would try it out well in advance of the tour to be sure was comfortable with the results. The frogs/sliders matched each other quite well so I was fairly confident the switch would allow me to take my Dolling bow on tour (sans ivory) and, and I also thought the other frog would go nicely, even if only temporarily.

HOWEVER, it turns out that the handmade, custom nature of sticks and frogs means that the frogs are carved to compensate for quirks in the stick (I'm sure no bowmaker is surprised by this), so that when my bows were rehaired with the other frogs and tightened they both curved sideways!
(the obvious question is did they curve in opposite directions, and while I think they must have my reaction to seeing the curves was to loosen the bows immediately and get the original frogs put back ASAP, so I didn't notice for sure)

Experiment terminated!
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