grinding lams

[V-Archer]

Nothing on the tele so I set-up my belt sander and did some lam grinding and tapering to kill time.
The result: 20 osage lams, 14 carbonised bamboo lams, 8 natural bamboo lams and 4 action wood lams.
Still need to do some pre-tillering and then they are ready for some bow making.

V-Archer

 

 

[kennym]

 Better than TV anytime Arnold!!

[Shaun]

Are you grinding them by eye or to you have some sort of jig to run them over the belt?

[mmgrode]

I agree...much better than TV!  You'll be able to get a few bows from that pile!  I'm just about to grind some up this weekend for bamboo bows now that you mention it...osage, purpleheart, walnut, bloodwood, and elm.  Should be fun!   Great bows by the way V!

[V-Archer]

Shaun,

This is the tool/jig that I use:

 

[Shaun]

Thanks Arnold. Nice set up and very fine set of laminations. I have been using a drum sander with tapered and flat platens but it is slow because of fixed feed rate and availble grit size issues causing me to use several passes. Looks like your jig allows you to make one pass and control the speed by hand. Good information, thanks again.

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Those Osage lams third stack from the right are just GORGEOUS!!!! Did you cross cut them to get the layering effect in the rings??

[V-Archer]

Lewis,

I got these lams from an e-bay auction last year. They were approximately 0.3" thick and were more or less flat grain sawn. Grinding them gave this result.
These defintely will go under clear glass showing the nice grain when done.

V-Archer

[Lewis Brookshire III]

Those are probably the best looking Osage lams I have ever seen. They have lots of charater in them. Should look REAL good under clear glass!