Postman brought me a box today (pics added)

[Larry m]

Nice work Brad!!
Your color match on the belly looks good.....
Perhaps I missed it above but what did you use for a finish and how many coats??

[warpedarrow]

Larry,

I sealed the wood with  water based polyurethane then followed up with about fifty or sixty coats of Minwax oil based polyurethane, wet sanding every five or six coats with 600 grit or worn out 400 grit.  I sprayed the limbs with rattle can Helmsman poly.  The riser was wiped on with pieces of old cotton cloth.  After I was satisfied with the depth of the finish, I did a final wetsand with 1000 grit and followed up with one thin coat of gloss poly.

[Larry m]

    !!
Thanks

[mangonboat]

Excellent work. Made a beautiful classic look even better. Hard to get better bow porn than a pretty 62 KS.

[White Falcon]

Great work, Brad.

[Lucas K]

Great work, that one really turned out nice!

[yeager]

Hey Brad,  beautiful work.   Just curious, after your last coat of wipe-on poly, what is your final prep?  Do you wet-sand and then use a polish, or just polish after your last coat? Also, what type of polish do you use, if any at all.

Again, great refinish.

[warpedarrow]

On this bow, which I felt all along was a dull looking thing, I decided to finish the job with a thin coat of poly, no final wet sanding, and then a simple hand polish with Meguiars pre wax treatment.  I forget the exact product name.  Maybe pre-wax glaze.  I have nearly used a bottle of the stuff in the past two or three years.  It really makes a sheen "pop" with a little rubbing.

Some day I will find a buffer that doesn't rotate at 3500 rpm.  I have sanded bows and then buffed them but it is so easy to burn the finish with my buffer that I have been reluctant to use it.