2016 Bow Swap

[Crittergetter]

Big Jim actually uses a 1/4" piece of woven fiberglass. The stuff is amazingly strong. Don't feel to bad Dave, my second 2 piece wouldn't come apart so I had to grind it all down and start over. I had the taper going the wrong way.      
Oops!
You know what they say, "if you ain't breakin you ain't building",
Sorry for the bad luck bro. Now rub that head of yours and start again!    

[wood carver 2]

That sucks. I feel for you Dave. All that work and materials.
I'm in no rush if it was for me.
Dave.

[Wagstaff]

OUCH..!  
I feel your pain..  You had that pretty far into the build..

Could be grain orientation?

[KellyG]

Ok I have some catching up to do. Sorry about my mix up in the shipping dates I figured yall did not have enough stress in your lives so I should add some.

I will try and get a new list out of what I am tracking I am just on PG 23 so Bare with me.


Some great bows sent and received.

[Horn Chaser]

I went to the post office this afternoon and I had a nice little surprise waiting for me at the post office. I was expecting some supplies for a couple more bows I have to build but I had a long tube with a
Pretty little Ipe and cherry bow with black glass.  Thanks Steve, hopefully I can test her out on one of our little whitetail deer or some pigs this fall. Since my computer is acting up I will have Chackworth post some pics for me late .

[monterey]

Dave, maybe you can repurpose the limbs to a TD?

[canopyboy]

You know what Mike? I told my kids I'm going to repurpose the upper one for a whoopin' stick. It's gotta handle and everything now! I'm also thinking of garden stakes.

Didn't make it as far as I wanted tonight, but take two is coming along. This one has a 0.40 center section made up of 6 pieces of UL and ULS with one .06 red phenolic accent strip down the middle. Ran all the glass and phenolic through the sander to rough it up nice.

In the future I will just buy some Jim's 1/4" black woven glass. But to get this going, I figured I'd use up what I have around that was never going to make a bow anyway. I think it's going to look pretty sweet even if it does take a lot of glue to put together. Sides are clean osage. This sucker oughta hold. I'm feeling good enough that I'm making two, one for me.

Everything is cleaned and ready for glue up tomorrow night. But then I won't be able to touch it until next week. And then there is my first time going to ETAR. Uhg. Glad y'all are a patient bunch.

[breazyears]

Your welcome Tom. Hope you like the way it shoots.
 Dan, if that was for me im ok with waiting. That sucks.

[canopyboy]

Went in to work a bit late this morning to get the riser blocks glued up and in the oven. Ordered some more glass. (I like that OMC offers "Crystal Clear" for an extra buck.) Plan to cut and grind the lams tonight so I'm all ready to glue up next week when I get back to the shop.

Sticking with the plan to make twins. If all works out, I get to keep the second one. If not, well, my recipient gets the second one as a one piece.

[Roy from Pa]

Wish you the best,  David.

[monterey]

I admire your tenacity  

[LittleBen]

Sorry to see that Dave, wish I could have been there though ... We've only seen my bows explode at full draw so this would have been a nice change! Lol. You'll get it, just get some glass in that tenon.

[SportHunter]

Fired up the bow oven for the first time, worked like a champ. Glued a bamboo back on the English longbow blank and induced some slight reflex.

This blank has some history, it came from the original Lake Club locally that opened in 1935. The man that gave it to me and told me he bought it with a group of very old bows and never knew what to do with it until he met me. I suspect this blank is easily over 60 years old. Hopefully I can do it some justice. I've had it indoors for about three years so it should be acclimated well.

Also plan to glue up the tri-lam BBO shortly. Already did the z splice and glued the mid lams together. We'll be cutting it close this year and will probably go into the grace period a bit.

[jsweka]

That really sucks, Dave!  Would have been a really nice bow.  

Bring it to ETAR and we'll have a pair of the nicest fire pokers in Potter County, PA.

[talkingcabbage]

Wow, a lot of catching up to do.  That really stinks about that two piece.  If its for me I can take a one or two piece -- whichever you feel like building.   I'm in no hurry!  

If the weather cooperates I'll finally be spraying this weekend.  We haven't gotten a day withot rain or high humidity (when I'm not working) for the past month.  And I'm not fancy enough to have an actual spray booth, so I have to wait and do it in the garage.  But as soon as it's done she's ready to go!  Sorry to *(!&!/@* -- I'll get her out as soon as I can!

[inksoup]

yesterday in Turkey, "State of Emergency" was declared.

i am not sure that i will be able to receive the bow that you will send. please do not do any shipment to TR before i make this situation clear. if it is classified as "weapon", then i am doomed in custom.
 :(

may the force be with TR.

hope to see you again...


best.

[canopyboy]

I've been thinking of you Ink. Hard to believe all that's happened in Turkey since I was there in November. Take care of yourself.

[SportHunter]

Be safe Ink.

[rainman]

Just got back from wedding in California and my bow from Inksoup was waiting for me.  Haven't got a chance to shoot it yet, but i will this weekend while I am working on a new bow for my recipient.

[Dan Landis]

Glad to hear you're ok Ink, been thinking about  you.  Hope things get better soon for you and TR.