Author Topic: one piece static tip build a long - full draw! finished! tested! (Read 2640 times)

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #20 on:** November 01, 2014, 05:51:00 AM »

Tapping toes, waiting. LOL

monterey · « **Reply #21 on:** November 01, 2014, 05:55:00 PM »

Wish I had your energy!

monterey · « **Reply #22 on:** November 01, 2014, 05:56:00 PM »

Wish I had your energy!

wcdurand · « **Reply #23 on:** November 24, 2014, 01:06:00 AM »

Hi Wayne, Iv'e been watching this one closely. Whats happening?

fujimo · « **Reply #24 on:** November 24, 2014, 01:21:00 AM »

been off it for the last two weeks- full into the rut right now-

not me ...the deer- weeeell ....me too i guess :D :D
anyway...i did get the form made for the spruce tip inlays
was fabricating and welding up all the brackets, need to finish with the router work on the form- then ready to have a good crack at it.

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #25 on:** November 24, 2014, 05:36:00 AM »

Didn't happen without pictures.

Buemaker · « **Reply #26 on:** November 24, 2014, 06:23:00 AM »

Rut or no rut, this is slow going and suspense is almost killing us.

Bue--.

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #27 on:** November 24, 2014, 01:09:00 PM »

Never heard of a bowyer using a welder to make a bow?

fujimo · « **Reply #28 on:** January 20, 2015, 02:20:00 PM »

hey, i can use whatever i want to build a canadian bow, eh! :D

fujimo · « **Reply #29 on:** January 20, 2015, 02:29:00 PM »

ok so the forms were finished- both the main form, and the form for the static tip inserts.
next was prepping materials for the tips,
some good ol sitka spruce

nice tight , straight grained stuff

030 clear glass
2x .100 lams with 002 taper,
riser and inserts

black limba for lams and riser cheeks,
maple and ipe for i beam
spruce for tip inserts

fujimo · « **Reply #30 on:** January 20, 2015, 02:32:00 PM »

besides i am not much of a bowyer Ol' fella- so figure i can get away with it!!

the concept for the spruce tip inserts came from mark daniel- and he did that with his very pronounced static tip 3 piece bow-with string bridges an' all.
so he did all the smart R and D- i am just working to his idea.

fujimo · « **Reply #31 on:** January 20, 2015, 02:36:00 PM »

ground lams- on my trusty Kenny-m sleds :D , spliced the lams- was very worried about them busting at the splice with the pronounced curve in the riser on the back, so glued them up with smooth on instead-.

shaped and sanded the riser, and trimmed and sanded the limb tip inserts to a feather!

fujimo · « **Reply #32 on:** January 20, 2015, 02:40:00 PM »

the snakey profile under the riser is a laminated piece that i lay on the form, when final shaping the riser- it is made up to match the combo of glass and wood lam, incl the tapers- it was laminated from 3 layers , so that it will hold its shape well- that way i dont have to repeatedly flex the splice joint when test fitting the riser. its only a tad longer than the actual riser

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #33 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:01:00 PM »

Snot too shabby..

Buemaker · « **Reply #34 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:11:00 PM »

Coming along nicely. Good idea with the snakey profile . Bue--.

wood carver 2 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 20, 2015, 06:13:00 PM »

Looking good!

Dave.

fujimo · « **Reply #36 on:** January 20, 2015, 06:15:00 PM »

you like the wood Dave :D
it completely changes under glass- i can now see why you love it!

fujimo · « **Reply #37 on:** January 20, 2015, 09:05:00 PM »

using the trick i learnt on here from some ol fella in Pa, using a toothpick to line everything up in the riser area- makes life so easy nowadays

got it into the form, getting the insert sandwiched between the lams at the tip was going to be really tricky- did a few dry runs, with the wood being dry, it was really hard to get it set up perfectly, but knew with the glue bing slippery i could get it to work

so glued it all up, inserted the wedge- about 10# pressure- then with the glue helping i could slide it into the perfect position, , air in small bursts over about 20 minutes- checking that it was well seated the whole time.
got it into the oven- to get up at 3;50 am to switch the oven off!

bigbob2 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 20, 2015, 10:19:00 PM »

Interesting to say the least!

Mad Max · « **Reply #39 on:** January 20, 2015, 11:08:00 PM »

Looking good

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