What did you do today?

[Roy from Pa]

Charlie ole boy, don't make me do a road trip down there and thump ya a good one son:)

[Brock]

Yesterday, I pulled out some Surewood Doug Fir shafts, 65-70 cut and tapered at 30".  I put on a generous coat of Minwax in the mahogany color.

Then while they were standing in a section of landscape lumber with 23/64 holes cut 1/4 inch to stand them up in...   I grabbed all my arrows, points, fletching jig, and fletching and started fixing some repairs.

I had broken points to remove off of partial shafts...weigh to verify size...sort.  Then had loose fletching or missing fletching on some shafts so pulled them off and put new fletching on.  Then found some really old 2219 shafts, Legacy pattern....so dug through a box and found swaged inserts...glued on some nocks...and fletched a couple of them up.  not sure why as I can only shoot them from my Habu. LOL

Today going to do a couple three coats of wipe on Poly to seal the shafts more...I hope in between cutting hedges, changing oil in motorycle, shooting bow.  

[stringstretcher]

Two words there ole Roy......"ROAD TRIP"

[Razorbak]

Roy..can I be your grandson.. LOL     looking  good

[red hill]

This morning I finally flipped the tips on an osage selfbow I've been working on. I'll take the clamps off later this evening, or tomorrow morning.  
After heating the tips on the selfbow I worked on my trade bow.
I still have a third bow standing in the corner that I need to finish up but it'll hafta wait.

[Dallas]

Glued up a longbow and got it into the hot box.  Nasty yellow wood riser and core with eastern red cedar back and belly.  This is the time I always imagine what I've done wrong or what can go wrong, since Murphy lives in my shop.

[red hill]

Took the selfbow out of the clamps. I'll have to re-heat the tips.  They didn't retain the shape I wanted.

I got my trade bow floor tillered and even worked on the thrid bow a little.

[Dan Landis]

Split & peeled a hop hornbeam log into 6 staves that I cut yesterday, also split a piece of hawthorn that I found that was blown over, but stll growing.  It's pretty gnarly looking and only about 4ft. long.  Hopefull I can get two good billets from it to splice.  I think I read somewhere that hawthorn is a good bow wood.  Any one have any experience with it?

[Brock]

ended up doing 5 coats of wipe on poly with light sanding with steel wool in between....

hopefully will be dry enough to fletch up in couple days as I found the minwax and then poly sealer take a few days to completely cure down here in southeast.  Might put on porch tomorrow to let the sun and breeze help in the curing..  

I have some natural turkey fletching from Magnus to put on these when done...  

[MoeM]

[MoeM]

Originally posted by MoeM:
This morning I got a bow for a swap strung for the first time. Unfortunatly the belly domed a bit which led to lack of a little glue... so I got some airbubbles under the glass. I used my heatbox for the first time and I think the thinner glue can be made resbonsible, next time I`ll have to use thicker pressurestrips.
     

     

     

Maybe some of you have already seen similar configurations... but I really love the cool AND warm look it provides- and tell me combination that hasn`ever been used on Hillstyle^^

Ed.: Shall take the chance thank again guys like John Sweka or especially Dick Wightman for their great BAs, which tought me how do do those beauties!

Edd.: Hell yeah hit the target weight of 50#@28"DPP within +/-0,5#  

[Roy from Pa]

Today I installed a screen door on the bow shop to keep the fricken bugs out on those warm nights when I'm working on bows.

 

Then mounted brackets on the wall to get the pile of clamps organized:)

 

[red hill]

Spent a little time tillering bows today after mowing the yard.

My trade bow is looking really nice. I got it to a low brace and the limbs are bending evenly when pulled to 18 inches.

The second bow for my son's buddy is coming around a little better.  One limb doesn't bend as much, but when on the tiller tree the gizmo leaves marks on the weaker limb. Right now it has almost a quarter inch positive tiller. Hopefully it'll even out.

[wood carver 2]

Roy, if you want, you can come up to my place and organise my mess I mean shop. It looks as though someone took a neat shop, filled it with wood and sawdust and gave it a good hard shake.    :(  
Dave.

[Dan Landis]

Roy, I'm impressed, the door even looks straight, lol.  Really though, nice job.

[Robertfishes]

Roy, we call that a "storm" door.. a screen door is something different here in Florida..I must have hung at least 200 or more of this type of screen door back in my construction days. Nice job on the door installation      

[Roy from Pa]

I got ya Robert, ok so I hung a storm/screen door combo today:)

[carpin'mark]

Finally! Bow finished curing Sunday, but string didnt make it til today. Walnut Burl veneer over Hard Maple with olive green riser and wedges.
It's an 1 1/2" wide and although this one is on a recurve riser, I have put the typical T/D longbow risers on a few others and they seem to handle, point and shoot equally as well.
This is the fifth bow off of this mold and   tillering the last was as difficult as the first. The thin limb and double curve seem to make it a little 'squirrely' out at the limb end.
It's currently a dynamic limb, would a static be a little stiffer?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
         

[Robertfishes]

CarpinMark, I had the same problem with this bow..I only made one off of the form.. It is the fastest bow I have made but the limbs are too unstable for me. The stack at center of bow was 0.244 with a 22"riser. the bow came out 65# @ 28" I was hoping for 50#. I am gonna rework the form one of these days  

[carpin'mark]

That's a nice looking bow, I bet its fast, even with the forward grip you can see it has a lot of reflex built in.
Looking at your profile and mine I'm wondering if I have too much limb past the wedge tip. If I choked up an inch on both sides it might stiffen things up a bit.
Maybe what I did today was solve a problem.