2018 Annual Bow Swap Progress Thread

[Roy from Pa]

Kenny, light beer wouldn't make much noise...

 

[TradBowyer]

got the limbs mounted. everything looks good. had to order a tool so waiting for it to come in. I was hoping the accent stripe I put in had more contrast but you never know what wood is like under the surface.

[Roy from Pa]

Nice, Tim.

You posted a thumbnail picture, which is fine.

After you select your picture from your PC or phone, just to the right of the little window where the picture name appears, click ( Insert Attachment 1 ). That will make the picture full size in your post.

[inksoup]

here is your bow mate :D
need some more things to do, but it is pretty much completed...

[kennym]

I'm finally done with it, gonna try to get it sent off tomorrow.....

[kennym]

Going in morning, victim should receive it in 3 to 725 days 


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[Roy from Pa]

Ink, you have come a long way..

 

Kenny, now that is a shipping box..

[monterey]

Kenny spends more on his shipping box than I spend on a bow!

[kennym]

When I made it I was thinkin it would make a good shelf !! LOL

[kennym]

All scraps! That's the good side!!

[inksoup]

re: roy
thanks mate... especially if you think that i do not have wood shop in my new house, i guess this is good effort. atm, i am working in my balcony with praying my neighbors not to burn me on a stick 

i hope i will finish the rest and able to ship next week.

best.

[canopyboy]

Pulled the bow out of the oven, but nice weather, fire pit and whiskey called so I never cleaned up the goobers. Hope she turned out... the glue up was a bit crazy with a new riser being required on the fly.

[jdeitz10]

Put final 3 coats of Thunderbird on the bow today, plan to ship her off this weekend. Maybe before as long as finish looks good.

[jdeitz10]

[C. Johnson]

Looks great Jacob!

[canopyboy]

Figure I owe some pictures. Let's see if I can get them to work directly on this site without imgur...

First, here is the prototype bow. I need some better pics out in the sunlight, but this will give y'all the idea:

Then, here are the lams I used for the actual swap bow. Yew belly, ziricote back:

All glued up and ready for the oven on Sunday:

So I had found this really great laminated wood in the dumpster, not sure how old or what it was originally used for. Hard, heavy, resin impregnated, in 10' strips, 2" wide x 1-1/8" thick. Had that old plywood smell to it when you worked with it, but looked awesome if you tried shaping it. And seemed crazy strong, and had a little weight to it. Figured it would make good riser wood. I glued two together for that purpose and cooked it in the oven. I was surprised when it came out that I saw a few cracks had developed during heating. After some consideration, I figured I'd still go with it. Shaped it into the riser (you can see it on the left):

I had everything glued up and was making some last minute adjustments to the placement of the tip wedges before moving to the form when the riser slid out and hit the floor. This has happened before, but usually it is salvageable once I clean the dirt off and re-glue. Maybe one fade is a bit banged up, but usually it doesn't affect the finished bow. However, looking at this one showed both fades had shattered back to where it was almost 1/8 thick. I hadn't thought about how brittle it might be. So with my wife tapping her foot because we were due at the neighbor's for dinner I had to slam out another riser. I grabbed the first thing I could think of that was thick enough for a solid riser that wouldn't look too bad - walnut. Hope my recipient is ok with that. Should look ok I guess...

Otherwise Sunday was a good day in the bow shop. First time I glued up two bows in one day. The form was still warm from the first one when the second one went back in the oven.

Should have this thing shooting this weekend.

[Roy from Pa]

Very nice, Dave.

[BMorv]

Nice Jacob. 
And I like that color combo Dave.  That's going to be purty.

[BMorv]

That coco sure does pop

[canopyboy]

Very nice Benton!