Author Topic: 2021 what did you do today? (Read 150528 times)

kennym · « **Reply #1900 on:** July 09, 2021, 04:28:49 PM »

Hope there’s one that fits him !

Pat B · « **Reply #1901 on:** July 09, 2021, 04:55:30 PM »

Kenny, good for you for reestablishing native grasses. I'm a native plant nut so I appreciate what you are doing.
Short or tall grass?

kennym · « **Reply #1902 on:** July 09, 2021, 06:05:41 PM »

It’s my bro’s but I think it’s bluestem and maybe indiangrass

kennym · « **Reply #1903 on:** July 09, 2021, 06:44:13 PM »

My acreage is big and little bluestem, with alfalfa and lespezdia except 2 acres of beans and 2 acres of clover ...

Wish it had some timber ...

kennym · « **Reply #1904 on:** July 09, 2021, 10:01:55 PM »

Quote from: kennym on July 09, 2021, 03:57:23 PM

Got a fellow coming to shoot a couple bows , he wants to build one...

He likes the fhlb, 3rd from right. So we saw on a riser tomorrow and glue it back together...

Mad Max · « **Reply #1905 on:** July 10, 2021, 01:09:04 PM »

Timber

kennym · « **Reply #1906 on:** July 10, 2021, 02:08:15 PM »

That would be sweet Mark!! Wish my house was surrounded !

We spot glued 2 hunks of fancy Wood together. Sawed a design I drew up and swapped pieces , then glued back together. Next round we will glue the other pieces up and put a g10 I beam in the first one. Oh I guess we are building 2 bows ...

Mad Max · « **Reply #1907 on:** July 10, 2021, 02:33:59 PM »

Pictures

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #1908 on:** July 10, 2021, 03:33:13 PM »

Didn't happen wifout pichers....

kennym · « **Reply #1909 on:** July 10, 2021, 03:57:05 PM »

I was too nervous to take pics after he said what the two blocks cost....

kennym · « **Reply #1910 on:** July 10, 2021, 04:16:47 PM »

Here ya go, the other block pieces, will have a .050 of the really black walnut for an accent to take up the saw kerf...

Red Balu and stabilized buckeye burl.

Mad Max · « **Reply #1911 on:** July 10, 2021, 04:51:41 PM »

Nice kenny

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #1912 on:** July 10, 2021, 05:00:58 PM »

Purty sweet.

Longcruise · « **Reply #1913 on:** July 10, 2021, 07:14:24 PM »

Gonna be a beautiful riser Kenny.

Here's my house surrounded by . . . . Ah, er other houses.

Longcruise · « **Reply #1914 on:** July 10, 2021, 09:10:11 PM »

Back from the short pack in overnight fishing trip with grandson and his friend. First time for both to carry their gear in. I did all I could to coach them in advance on preparation but even so, valuable lessons were learned from minor omissions.

I packed 74# in just to be sure I could fill in the gaps. The friend was on his second camping trip ever and caught his first fish ever.

I know it's not bow related but that's what I did today and yesterday.

This dig was about 20 feet from my tent. A bear tore this up likely last year. probably trying to dig a rodent out.

Bvas · « **Reply #1915 on:** July 10, 2021, 10:24:58 PM »

Beautiful country Mike.

I hope the youngsters enjoyed themselves. I know I would have.

Bvas · « **Reply #1916 on:** July 10, 2021, 10:27:28 PM »

Glued up a bow for my wife today. Fingers crossed it turns out ok.
A couple of pegs busted while it was in the hot box. Will find out in the morning.

Pat B · « **Reply #1917 on:** July 10, 2021, 11:20:15 PM »

That is beautiful country, Mike. 74# is quite a load to tote.

I started working on some arrows for an arrow trade on PA and another project. These are 3 sourwood shoots and 2 hill cane after the initial straightening session.

flyonline · « **Reply #1918 on:** July 11, 2021, 02:17:55 AM »

Tillered out a hickory wattle bow today from a 1/3rd off a sapling stave. For a sliver with a few issues I'm pretty happy - yes it's bending too much in the middle but that's all I had to work with once I shaved off the splinters and muck. I may yet add a riser block and/or powerlam on the belly to try and up the poundage a bit, pike it a little or maybe have a crack at steaming in some recurves. I've tried dry heating this timber 3 times and it split prodigiously each time, so maybe a bit of steam will work - I've read of saplings like this being steam bent for tools/hoops/etc. back in the 'bad ol' days' so here's hoping....

I have some high hopes for this timber, this is the 3rd successful bow I've made but I've yet to hear of anyone definitely using it for bows. The previous 2 were a lot more impressive than this though

Bow was roughed out then quick dried which induced both prop twist and about 2" of reflex. Of course the reflex has almost disappeared (but no string follow as yet...), but the prop twist stayed

66" NTN
28lb @ 28"
450gms

Steve

Roy from Pa · « **Reply #1919 on:** July 11, 2021, 04:39:11 AM »

Awesome pictures Mike.
Good job Brad and Steve.
Pat looking forward to the arrow build.

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