Future wood vs Action wood !

[Forwardhandle]

Craig did you do your ramps with your spindle sander ? this stuff puts plastic like acrylic layler on all sand paper that gets near it...lol ,Im changing my drum sander paper after this riser is done !

[C. Johnson]

Lol!  Yep, that's exactly how my 3" spindle sander sleeves looked when I was done.  Watching this thread is like deja' vu. 

[C. Johnson]

I promise it will come out great though.  The material is just a pain to work with.  Even worse than Lignum Vitae.

[Forwardhandle]

Well I better order some more 3 in. spindle drums then to have on hand , that's why I'm posting this so others can see the fun you can have with this wood 

[Forwardhandle]

Im not trying to detour any body because I think it will look sweet with the green glass , just letting you know what fun awaits you 

[Forwardhandle]

I found a few tips & tricks working with this future wood first one is choose another wood...lol  but finally got my riser blank to width, simple right ? Not so much , I normally on any block type glue up like to joint one face and sneak up on the parallel width with the thickness planer or drum sander , I was to afraid to use the thickness planer because the resin acts strange with planer blades so I left my blocks about 3/16 proud after jointing and took it to the drum sander but was burning to many spots on the drum paper with the resin so ones every thing was parallel, I took it back to the jointer and jointed it to with in 1/16 and drum sanded supper slow conveyer feed and the drum barley sanding it worked much better that way but I could fall asleep between passes but made it down to the wire with out having to change my drum sander paper , will see how it works tomorrow with new 3/8 band saw blade !

[Forwardhandle]

Amazingly the deeper you get into the wood the less of a problem the resin becomes its not even sticking to the spindle sander now ,but no issues with the bandsaw cuts very smooth !

[Pfranchise]

Ritchie that is going to look awesome. What is the stripe in the middle, Walnut?

[Forwardhandle]

It's Mozanbique bordered with maple for the belly handle overlay I'm thinking yellow action wood with lams maple /green future wood & Mozanbique wings for the grip , maybe capped with green future wood  I usually only make rustic looking hunting bows so this one is different for me !

[monterey]

That's a pretty looking riser.  Looking forward to seeing the finished bow.

[C. Johnson]

I like the use of color.  I think the combination of contrasting colors really make that riser "pop" visually.

You might try yellowheart if you want a yellow colored wood.  Its stable and holds it's color better than Osage and doesn't warp and twist like canary wood.

I can't wait to see the finished bow.  I'll bet it looks amazing.

[Forwardhandle]

I actually used yellow action wood on the vertical forward but it looks like a good osage impostor it should be stable & strong for sure !

[stickmonkey]

As far as vs goes the future wood makes for a very attractive and almost g10 durable knife handle. As mentioned for all the above reasons I absolutely hate working with it but I was the dummy that agreed to make the knife with future wood scales  Grinding the knife took less time than shaping the palm sells and contours into the future wood. Now I use the leftover for milling drilling jigs and use the mill to process it.