Bow builders blues!!!

[Jason Kendall]

Dont you just hate it when you pull the tape off and you see this! Lucky for me it was just a prototype and it will be cut up anyways.

 

I sure wish they could make it streak free like it was a decade a go.

[PV]

It gets to me as well.   :mad:    :mad:  A few of my friends have ended up with presents that have  real pretty wood and streaks.Wonder why they can't make it like it used to be? Upside is it's a proto and the limbs can still tell you what you want to know.

[jsweka]

That stinks, but at least it wasn't a bow for a payin' customer.  If it was, try to talk them into some skins over it  

[Roy from Pa]

Tell me about it! 30 hours prep time and tillering, had it to 19 inches on the tree, tiller was perfect! Then snap. Makes me sick. I get so tired of bamboo splitting.

 

 

[Jason Kendall]

Dang Roy, at least my gripe is just cosmetic! I do feel you pain.

[Roy from Pa]

Thanks Jason, not the first and won't be the last:) I guess that is why we keep going back and starting all over:)

[jess stuart]

I hate using clear glass for that rason.  However when the tape comes off and all looks good it is a truly wondeful feeling.  If there were never any imperfections I would probably always use clear glass.  I feel your pain.

[Sixby]

Jason that is terrible. I do feel for ya. I just built a bow that is double carbon , yew cores and light glass over fancy walnut on the belly.
In bright sunlight you can see little yellow spots in the glass and like a film in part of it. Inside its perfect. No air bubbles or anything like that. I am about ready to stop building limbs with darker veneers. Last year I built three bows in a row before I got one that was clear enough over fancy koa. I had to sell off the other two bows at a radical discount and lost eight really super fancy koa veneers. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. I'm really culling the glass too but even that doesn't catch everything.

Yep you have a great cantidate for Billy Ships camo or for snakes. Camo dipping those limbs might be an answer though. I think its under a hundred bucks.

God bless and Merry Christmas. Steve

[Jason Kendall]

I was thinking the same thing Steve, A Predator Camo dip may be the ticket  :D

[Sixby]

That would look so sharp!!!

[Shaun]

Originally posted by Jason Kendall:
it will be cut up anyways.  

Say it ain't so...

[Robertfishes]

I have found a few streaks in glass by shining a black light thru the glass in a dark room, I also hold glass up and look thru it using a regular light bulb. I still miss a couple of small streaks but I seem to catch the big ones..i only build 6 bows a year for personal use. I am gonna try wetting the sanded side of the glass with distilled water or denatured and laying on a black surface to see if that helps in seeing the streaks. I have a few pieces of streaky glass so I may build a few bows and send them to Billy for film dipping.

[Glunt]

Sixby - thats interesting about the yellow spots.  I just pulled a bow out and had some little yellow spots (clear glass over jatoba).  I figured I somehow got some osage or something in my glue.  I'm calling them power dots. :^)

[monterey]

My personal bows are all spray painted camo.  Either cause of streaks or I just did not like the look of em.  The ones for friends and relatives are the flawless ones.

Some day I'm gonna make a nice one for me!

[Jason Kendall]

The streak in the limb above was fairly visible before glue up, I just used it because it was a prototype.

Some are small enough nobody could see them but if you order your glass from Kennym you wont get anything like the pic, he inspects the glass before he ships it.

For the last three years I have considered black glass only limbs for this reason. I just cant make the jump!

[ranger 3]

Is there any way to buff them out?

[Jason Kendall]

Nope, they are in the glass, no surface issues.

[kennym]

Some streaks are just inside the glass, I had a return pc with a streak, I ground a .040 down to under .020 without getting to the streak.

All you can do is try to find em before you glue.......

Using in a proto and dipping is one option, just wish it were all good tho!!

[kennym]

"For the last three years I have considered black glass only limbs for this reason. I just cant make the jump!"

No kiddin Jason, I am shootin a proto with flawless black glass, but with a camo spray job!
  :D