Taking the plunge.

[Autumnarcher]

Spent the day in the  shop working on the form, got the edge of top and bottom  routered, sanded and fine tuned.
Spent a couple hours playing around with riser templates,got one cut out but still not 100% sold on it.
Tomorrow a little router work and should be able to get hardware drilled and installed. Gonna wait on cutting in  the riser shape on the top half until I have a template I like a little better. Will put a couple coats of urethane on it, and then finish up the hot box.  Im moving really slow, part because I do not wanna screw it up, and realized Im pretty rusty when it comes to using the router. Just have not done much with them. Will add a few pics tomorrow.

[Autumnarcher]

Press is almost done. Some detail sanding in a few spots, add formica strip and once I get a riser template made I’m happy with mark that out and cut top for riser. Still need to trim a lil off the ends on the top section. But its lookin close to ready.
 
 Waiting on some light fixtures for hot box which will be here Friday afternoon and can finish that up. 





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[monterey]

Could be the picture or the angle but to me it looks like the space between the top and bottom halves is less at the ends of the form.

[Autumnarcher]

It is in that pic. I trimmed ends after this pic. This morning gave it a good lookin over and top was a hot mess. Talked to Kenny, he got me back on track. Was able to save form by re-working the top and now its good to go. Scribed and re-cut the entire top, and now its within 1/32 the entire length. Was worried I may hafta scrap the whole thing. Back on track. Learnin, havin fun and havent even bothered plowing snow outta the driveway.


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[monterey]

Glad you got it good to go!  When is lay up?

[kennym]

He has to snowshoe to the shop , so give him time...

[Autumnarcher]

Kenny lol. Luckily the shop is attached to the house. But I gotta snowshoe to the barn
Monterey, first glue up sometime next month.
A few other jigs etc to figure out how I wanna make, then plan a trip to get more plywood and a few other shop supplies I need so once I bake one Ihave everything I need on hand.
 Plus gotta take time for some ice fishin and bunny huntin.  Kt much more fun than huntin snowshoe hares on snowshoes with my longbow.
 Long winter here in the Yoop, I get full use of it.


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[Autumnarcher]

Bein that its been snowin like crazy, figured I’d get my cooker wired up. Still need to insulate it but thats gonna wait a bit. Used a temp controller I made for beer fermenting, it will hold temp at whatever I want and can set variable up and down to within .5 degrees.


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[monterey]

You do nice work, John.  I expect you will get good results with your bow too.

[Autumnarcher]

So after building this hot box out of leftover materials and seeing how big a pain in my backside it was taking up floor space in the shop, im changing gears.
 I needed more. Bench  space to pile things on. So started building an 8’ bench and will incorporate the bow cooker into that with front load instead of top. Can re-use most of the plywood off the first. Can store form inside it clearing up more room. 
 Thats the beauty of winter, I can spend a lot of time in the shop on cold windy days. The nice days are for bunny huntin and ice fishin.
 Will finish this up prob tomorrow, although the top is temporary till I can get to Menards. I’ll top it with a double layer of 1/2 MDF and a few costs of poly. Makes a nice flat smooth assembly bench.



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[Buemaker]

Hot box looks good. Looks like you are going all in.

[Autumnarcher]

Heres hot box 2.0. I like this a lot better and added 8’ of additional bench space. Still have to insulate it, with 5 200!watt bulbs it took 40 minutes to get up to 100 degrees. At that rate, my power company gonna love me. I’ll grab a couple sheets of foil backed foam board insulation when I get the MDF to build the permanent top for it.


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