My 2014 trade bow adventure (3rd weekend).

[LESKEN2011]

Good weather down south, today, so I decided to make some new forms for the trade & and back up bows. I had an old wooden waterbed frame that I decided to re-purpose. I thought it was made from 2 x 8s, but after I drew and cut out my form, I realized the wood was only 1.25" thick instead of 1.5". I needed at least 1.5, but decided since I was going to have to supplement the width, I would add 3/4 to make it a full 2 inches wide. Here is a view of 1/2 of the 1 piece form and the 3/4 inch piece right off the band saw.
         

     

All glued up...

   

I made my full length form with the belly on the bottom for working with bamboo. I will use the cut outs for take downs with the belly on top...unless I decide to try a bamboo take down...   :eek:

Also, I bought a featherboard online a few months ago, but had to make a few modifications to make it work the way I wanted it to for cutting lams and backers on the band saw. Here is a pic...
   

[LESKEN2011]

I had this weekend all planned to get my forms finished, but, since I am the computer guy at my house and office, I got stuck with upgrading all the windows XP computers this weekend to a newer version of windows. I decided on Win 7 Pro. FYI, for those of you who don't know, Windows will be ending their servicing of Windows XP on April 8. That means no windows updates after that which could make computers that continue to use that operating system more vulnerable to attack by hackers, viruses, etc.

I did order some wood and a couple of tools that should be in this week, though and may get to work a little on bow stuff after church today.

[inksoup]

huh....

i am a computer guy as well...

and if my guess is correct then it will be from computer guy to computer guy bow hahaha what a conincidence...

on the other hand... i am not a windows guy... prefer always linux...

be linux'ed and feel the freedom...

[LESKEN2011]

Yeah, Ink, I field tested Ubuntu for desktop use and have to deal regularly with linux for my web development hobby.

Sorry I haven't posted in the last couple of weeks. Been tied up with some family stuff and Easter. I did take some time during the week nights and finish up getting the holes in my take down limb forms and just need to tweek my reflex/deflex form for one piece bows. I also got some white oak, walnut, hickory, and tiger wood lams done and will be ready for the glue up by this weekend. I will try to get some new pics up this weekend of my progress so far.