2021 what did you do today?

[Roy from Pa]

Got the bow cut out today.

Needs cleaned up yet.

[Bvas]

Dang Roy. Glad to see you get a fire lit under your buttocks.

Or did Chris just get tired of your grumpy butt and vanquish you to the shop.

Either way, nice job. 

[Roy from Pa]

Thanks Brad

Been a long time since I was serious about making bows.

Chris with her cancer, then my back, then the virus and riots, then the depression all that crap sent me into.

Then the guys talked me into the swap and I knew I had to do better for the swap bow.

And it turned out so nice and a month ago, a buddy with 60 acres in Ohio who supplies me with Osage logs, asked me to make one for a friend of his out west. What could I say to my Osage supplier? LOL

And seeing all the awesome risers the glass bow guys in here make, got me thinking about making nicer risers, and the light came on:)

So been spending more time in the shop the past 2 months, thinking how I can do better.

And icing on the cake, I decided it was time to get rid of the belly fat, so I've lost 19 pounds the past 2 months.....

[4 point]

That is gonna be sharp Roy!

[4 point]

Got the limbs bolted on and they look straight. I'm curious what it'll look like strung.

[kennym]

 

[hunting badger]

Roy, Great Job on the weight loss!! It's a battle my hats off to you!! I cut lams for my grandkids bows I"m building them, got the risers done yesterday! I built a !" form so I could build 1" longbows for them, I can't get too fancy or I can't keep up, they grow way to fast and out grow bows quickly!! When you have 17 grandkids and one on the way its hard to keep up!!

[Buemaker]

Roy, good job on the belly fat and bow looks good,

[Buemaker]

4 point, get a string on that baby, looks good so far.

[Roy from Pa]

Thanks guys.

Wholly crap Ken, got 13 here.

Travis that is wild..

[Buemaker]

Glued up a riser section. Australien Jarrah with a Lignostone I beam. Jarrah has a nice blue-red color.

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Flem]

I've been trying to figure out how to use different fruit woods for risers. We don't have much in the way of hardwoods around here and I really like the challenge of using collected/harvested/salvaged materials.
Anyone who has done woodworking with fruitwood knows they can be brittle, have irregular/bad grain and a lot of them check like crazy!

I have a bunch of this Apricot wood. The color and grain are really beautiful, but getting a usable uncracked
piece is impossible. So I decided to see if I could fill the cracks enough to have a usable chunk.
The usual process is like stabilizing wood, but I did want to soak the piece in epoxy. I poured a low viscosity epoxy (System Three Clearcoat) over the cracked area and threw it into a vacuum bag and lowered the vac pressure to 10Hg, which is less than half of what I am able to pull at my elevation.

I was really amazed at the amount of penetration in this Apple test piece. The tiny radial cracks at the bottom of the the V are almost imperceptible without magnification, but they filled with epoxy!

Now I just have to figure out the color of the fill so it does not look like crap!

[skeaterbait]

But they sure make for nice pulled pork and brisket.

[williwaw]

The usual process is like stabilizing wood, but I did want to soak the piece in epoxy. I poured a low viscosity epoxy (System Three Clearcoat) over the cracked area and threw it into a vacuum bag and lowered the vac pressure to 10Hg, which is less than half of what I am able to pull at my elevation.

I was really amazed at the amount of penetration in this Apple test piece. The tiny radial cracks at the bottom of the the V are almost imperceptible without magnification, but they filled with epoxy!

cool experimemt.  how much did it penetrate and how long was the piece?

[Buemaker]

I am going camping.

[Flem]

"cool experimemt.  how much did it penetrate and how long was the piece?"


It's a 1 1/2" dia. Maybe 6" of crack. The piece was a natural fork and after the epoxy it was stout enough to become a slingshot.

[Roy from Pa]

Just got back from getting our second vaccine shots.

[Mad Max]

What are you doing bue?

[Buemaker]

Max, I did not want to warm up the large heatbox just to cure one riser, so I made a small tent from a wool blanket.