2020 Bow Swap Progress Thread

[EvilDogBeast]

Fresh off the form and cleaned up.  Turned out pretty nice so far.  Dave, I am probably going to eat about a week of grace period time.

[4 point]

Wow! Those veneers are nice!

[EvilDogBeast]

Thanks! I am really happy with them.  Actually kind of sad I have to taper the limbs 

[canopyboy]

I bet, those veneers look pretty sweet.

Well, I got a coat of finish on last night. Letting the finish set another day or so before sanding really helped. In the future I'm just going to use their filler/sealer though.

Problem though when I went to today to look it over and get ready for a second coat. You can see a slight milkiness (almost irredescent) over the dark wood in the right light. I had this happen last year about this time over the koa in my daughter's bow as well as with the ERC bow I'm doing now for myself. It's subtle, but it kinda bothers me. It may disappear under the satin top coat anyhow, but if not I'll have to sand it all off and try again. I know It's not the glass as the ERC is Gordons and this bow is BP and I see it on both. I've got a call into Dave at T-Bird to hopefully help me troubleshoot what's going wrong. Humidity is actually pretty good right now and temp in the shop is also ideal. In all likelihood I may nudge into the grace period myself which kind of hurts, but I don't want to send my very deserving recipient something I wouldn't be happy with myself.

Poor guy, on top of waiting he's going to know every flaw in this bow before it gets to him as I probably post too much of the problems I have vs the stuff that goes well...

-Dave

[Crooked Stic]

Is it satin or dull. How many coats on it. too many coats make a purple haze buy the flatting agent.

[canopyboy]

1st coat of gloss. It's subtle but it happened to me on a recent bow as well and after a couple of coats is was more substantial.

David had no ideas. I'm starting to suspect minor amounts of oil or moisture in my line. My filter/separator is a fairly cheap one. Just bought a good one. In the meantime I'm going to see if I can get enough flow out of a dive tank and regulator setup I use with my nailguns when I don't want to pull an extension cord to a little compressor. I know that air is clean and dry. If that doesn't work I'll assume my finish has some contaminants in it somehow.

[skeaterbait]

Is that The Grim Reaper peering out the window under that cloak?

[canopyboy]

Maybe, you scared? 

Or a bandsaw I want to keep overspray off of...

[TradBowyer]

Well seems that the bow reaper has been on the move and he got me to. Closer inspection showed some milky spots on my one limb and I didn't want to send that out so I decided to go back to my first love...a nice hickory self bow. Research on my victim led me to believe they would be OK with this. Decided on this one to just leave it as natural as I could...no color dyes, overlays, etc. I'm glad i did. I really like how it turned out. Hope it fits the bill. If not I will gladly build any bow the victim would ask for and I do mean that sincerely. I also decided to go a little crazy and twist up a red white and blue string. I know it doesn't fit the selfbow theme but with all the mess going on right in this nation right now my patriotism is rising up.

[monterey]

Nice self bow.  Like the way you allowed the bark camo on the back.

[EvilDogBeast]

Well seems that the bow reaper has been on the move and he got me to.

You aren't the only one.  I nearly ruined the trade bow yesterday while tapering the limbs on the table saw.  The blade grabbed the belly glass and ripped a 1" x 0.100" chunk out.  Luckily it was mostly contained to the taper cutoff so I was able to trim it out by making the tapers 1/2" longer.  Now I just have to make weight... 

[monterey]

Dog, I don't do it with the table saw anymore but when I did, I used an abrasive wheel in place of the blade.  Never a problem.

[kennym]

Well seems that the bow reaper has been on the move and he got me to. Closer inspection showed some milky spots on my one limb and I didn't want to send that out so I decided to go back to my first love...a nice hickory self bow. Research on my victim led me to believe they would be OK with this. Decided on this one to just leave it as natural as I could...no color dyes, overlays, etc. I'm glad i did. I really like how it turned out. Hope it fits the bill. If not I will gladly build any bow the victim would ask for and I do mean that sincerely. I also decided to go a little crazy and twist up a red white and blue string. I know it doesn't fit the selfbow theme but with all the mess going on right in this nation right now my patriotism is rising up.

Likin this!!

 

[EvilDogBeast]

I used a 60 tooth blade on the last bow I built and it went without a hitch.  Guess I got lucky.  Either way I won't be doing that again.  I'll pick up an abrasive blade next time I'm at the store, thanks for the tip.

Trad, that's a beautiful bow.  Love the natural look!

[John Scifres]

Hey all.  Sorry I haven't participated in this thread.  This has not been a good couple months for me.  But I did get a bow mostly finished.  Still got a few finishing touches.  I'll post pics this weekend and ship next week.  Thanks.

[TradBowyer]

My bow has shipped....

[EvilDogBeast]

Got the bow strung and on the tree.  I'm 4 lbs under minimum and the bow is only rough sanded.  Starting over 

[EvilDogBeast]

Actually, whats a rough estimate on weight gain from piking 1" from each tip?

[kennym]

Around 6 lb on mine added for an inch off each end.  That might put you pretty close...

[EvilDogBeast]

Thanks Kenny. Going to give it a try.