So I desided my friend needs to make his own selfbow since he's been shooting an ironwood bow I gave him for a year now. We will be building him a osage selfbow over then next few weeks, and I will be taking pictures along the way to share with all of you.
danny
Picked him out a nice blank from the bin with some good thick rings, few knots, and some nice snakes in it too. Here's Sam laying the line for the first limb thickness reduction...
Making the bandsaw cuts...
I went ahead and did the basic handle shaping cuts on the bandsaw for him, since they can be a bit tricky. Here's Sam doing some more shaping with a rasp...
Woo, action shot! Here's Sam truing up the limb width...
And here we are reducing the belly even more to get it nice and even, as well as thin enough to bend on the caul...
Here I am getting the stave all set up the be reflexed on the caul. So it's thinned, corners rounded off, greased with mineral oil, and clamped at both ends...
Here's Sam finally getting the stave good and hot, after a little mishap with the high and low setting on the heat gun. So we're slowly cranking down the bar clamp at the handle and adding c-clamps to flatten out any high spots as we go along...
And here's Sam acting like a fool, as we often do...hamin' it up for the camera as we get the limb fully clamped up on the caul...
That was all the time we had for that day, didn't even get to the other limb. I will post more of progress as it comes.
Topic: Converting another....a buildalong(pics) (Read 8320 times)
