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Offline LeeNY

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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2013, 01:32:00 AM »
I'm glad I could contribute to you new pile of cardboard in your shop.
That bow blank is coming along fine, Scott will be very happy with it!
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2013, 12:31:00 PM »
Looking good Roy     :thumbsup:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2013, 03:09:00 PM »
good looking so far. wish i had that kinda talent. nicely done and it looks like itll be a good shooter too    :thumbsup:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2013, 06:02:00 PM »
It's okay, I guess.
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2013, 07:24:00 PM »
Dear Roy:

See you in 6 hours    :biglaugh:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2013, 09:45:00 PM »
Roy with that extra D/R it will take a bigger package.   :eek:    :eek:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2013, 10:01:00 PM »
Very nice Roy. What kind of glue do you use?
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2013, 11:24:00 PM »
Scott, come and get her, she is done. Or pm me your address.

I used Unibond800. I have the medium color resin because that's all Three Rivers stocks. I really don't care for the color of the glue joint. I have found an online supply place that sells unibond800 in gallons and also has the darker resin, plus a tinting additive to adjust the color of the glue, for a hell of a lot less $$$$..
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #28 on: September 10, 2013, 11:33:00 PM »
Saweet!!! Just in time for my birthday
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2013, 11:55:00 PM »


 

 
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2013, 12:10:00 AM »
drooooooooooooling
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2013, 04:30:00 AM »
Roy, how thick were the elm and osage pieces prior to glue up? Did you pretaper them?
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2013, 07:30:00 AM »
Don't stop there....file some grooves n slap a string on it and bend her on down    :saywhat:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2013, 09:14:00 AM »
Osage was 3/8th to 5/16th, Elm was 1/8th to 1/16th. The bending is Scotts job:)
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2013, 01:00:00 PM »
Just a suggestion, making the elm so much thinner than the osage kind of negates some of the benefits of using it,(taking up core space with a lighter weight wood) and using 3/8" thick osage is still kind of hard to bend, so eliminates the benefits of the tri-lam's flexability. You wouldn't have had to heat bend that reflex in if your lams were closer to the same size. Tri-lams hold their shape really well.
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2013, 01:08:00 PM »
Ok thanks, Jeff..
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #36 on: September 11, 2013, 01:23:00 PM »
I would generally agree with Jeff. I don't think it's critical or anything and obviously it held plenty of R/D. I try to make my lams roughly of equal thickness on tri-lams just for ease of bending etc ...
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #37 on: September 11, 2013, 05:09:00 PM »
Nice work Roy, you are a bow building machine these days!  I see where Jeff and Ben are coming from as far as the weight and flexibility goes, but with osage being the superior wood, I'm siding with Roy.  I'd rather have a little more than too little of that stuff.   :dunno:
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #38 on: September 11, 2013, 05:46:00 PM »
I had a brain fart on this one for some reason. Maybe because I made it 69 inches long and thinking being longer I needed more wood for more weight, but it has some sweet curves and plenty of wood for Scott to work down. I plan on directing Scott into doing a radius belly on her. That will make her sweet and give him the opportunity to reduce it down to his desired weight of 45 pounds.

Scott, are you taking notes, Son?  :)   I didn't work on it tonight, wife is leaving tomorrow for 4 days to visit her son, so I took her out for dinner and should stay out of the bow shop tonight. Ya all know how that goes:) LOL
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Re: Scott's Tri Lam Build Along
« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2013, 09:12:00 PM »
Yeah, too many brain farts in the shop  could be a catastrophe. Especially with the fumes wafting through PA... LOL!   :dunno:
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