68 in. Kennym bow !,64 in.,60in.,58 in. & mods & builds FHLB & R/D !

[Forwardhandle]

I just mean narrowing the front view & tips for example the plans called for 1 1/2 width on the R/D and mine eventually end up at 1 5/16 out of the fades & more narrow at the tips but I'm not recommending doing it ,I'm just saying that's what I did with mine ,I never made a glass bow before that one and was applying what I learned with self bows but it can be dangerous in the sense you can go to far and change the string angle and lose all gains and then some , plus at our draw lengths it's more amplified as far as stability ,it's a slow process making sure every thing is bending right and not under shooting your draw weight but you can end up with a little faster bow ! But with wood if you get the tips bending to much you can put back on the form and heat treat the tips & your usually good, with glass probably up the creek !

[fujimo]

gotcha, many thanks!

[Forwardhandle]

Fuji I'm far from a exspert on speed but another thing I have found is if your after speed , the string material & strand count can make a huge difference on speed , my tiller string is usually B-50 and when I switch to FF plus or D97 I can usually pick up 7-8 fps or more if you lower the strand count but I'm to chicken on hunting bows to get to thin !

[Forwardhandle]

Here is a Hillbilly laping trick I picked up for making these curved risers , I tape down all the lams & glass that goes under the riser and clamp the riser on the center line and take a flash light & eye ball the high spots and sand them off with the spindle sander then when I get close I take a sanding belt and cut the width of the form and tape it down and put pencil marks all over the riser and place the riser on the center line and rub it back and forth with in a 1/4 '' and it clearly shows the high spots that you can miss by eye and when done with that I take the sand paper & tape off and reclamp to see the fit , last time I did it on the R/D 64'' it was a perfect fit this riser is more curvy I will post when done its time consuming and tedious but worth the effort to me ! Plus you get a dead parallel riser to your form

[Roy from Pa]

Pretty neat trick..

[Forwardhandle]

Well I ended up with one limb 1/16 positive to get the perfect fit & ended up with a little thinner fades by 30/1000 then the plans call for but better thinner then thicker but looks good ,now going to scarf joint the lams , this riser on the forward handle bow was more difficult time wise ,to get every thing lined up right if you change one thing on one side you would have to ballance the other side , but the first time is always harder next time it will be easier !

[Forwardhandle]

Got all the lams and supper lam scarf jointed & glued up , cleaned the riser fit a bit more , zero gaps & zero light threw dry clamped , going to drill the holes in the form for zip ties and add aligment washers ,mark all centers and do a dry run with the glass in place and air hose !

[Roy from Pa]

Looks sweet..

[Forwardhandle]

Thanks Roy you going to make one ? 

[Roy from Pa]

Maybe someday.

I already have a Kennym bow made by the master himself.

 

[Forwardhandle]

Did a dry run with the topless form, glad I did, found some weak links on the end of the form tips that Im adding more holes to keep even pressure, Im using really wide commercial zip ties on top of the pressure strips, seems  to work great the only thing I dont like is when the mule tape is in place you lose sight of all alignment marks but this mule tape does not flex under pressure at all when aired up Im going to add some alignment washers & more holes and should be good to go !

[Forwardhandle]

In the oven glued up I had a peg break on one side during the dry run I did 3 dry runs before glue up its a little different with the topless form but I like it so far !

[kennym]

Gotta like topless!! 

[Forwardhandle]

Yep easy to make but broke 2 ,  3/4 in hard wood pegs going to 70 lb the second one during glue up so just wraped around the bottom of the form learned a lot of tricks on this glue up next one will be a breeze !

[kennym]

Need rebar? !

[Forwardhandle]

Im going to take a dado blade or router and put channels in the botom of the form and wrap around it next time ,I can see why he used metal pegs in the vid ! Oh well cant have any fun unless you have some thing go wrong and make you think on your feet 😮

[Forwardhandle]

On secound thought Im going to get some metal round stock cut the wood pegs off and redrill and epoxy them in place ! It will save on mule tape.

[Forwardhandle]

I woke up 1:30 am wide awake with this darn bow on my mind ,I couldnt run any power tools so poped it of the form and cleaned it up with a bastard file and scrapers which really is not a bad way to do it kinda therapy..lol ,but with all the problems during glue up it seems none the worse , every thing looks good so far its still setting at 70 '' I wanted to see how long I could go on this modified form Im thinking 66'' on the next if this one works out !

[Roy from Pa]

Looking nice..

[Forwardhandle]

Got every thing cleaned up and this is where the rubber meets the road cut it down to 66 '' for a 64'' NTN & checked the string alignment it is perfect , taking my time making sure the form was as perfect as I could get it ,payed off , checking the string alignment is in Kennym's R/D bow build for you guys that asked , Im going to lay out the front profile next & hopefully get it strung today or tomorrow ! The reflex ended up at 3'' cut at 66'' so I will have at least 2 1/2 at 64 NTN Im guessing.Also I run the center line & string alignment both back & belly just to make sure every thing is symetrical or detect any limb twist !