This is really the last few days, but close enough. Now that we are half moved out to the new place in the country and I'm sleeping out there it is easier to spend a couple hours in the shop every evening.
Got the second Perry reflex lam bow experiment onto the tillering tree and bending to 20". I had to rough out the handle area to get it to fit on my tree and I took inspiration from a thread by JGR1269 from a few years ago. He drills his riser to form the radius where the shelf meets the upright side of the riser window and to form the crotch of the grip at the pivot point. That looked way better to me than free handing those, so I figured I would try it.
His thread:
https://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?topic=153887.msg2662219#msg2662219The riser work is shown in posts #57 & 58.
The grip after being drilled. I left material in the center of the pivot point area so the bow would sit flat on my tree.
The grip roughed out close to it's finished width. The new bandsaw cut over 2.5" of red oak dead straight and square to the table. I'm very happy with that performance using a well worn blade.
On the tree at a bit over 20" draw (due to the grip area still being oversized a bit). It's showing 35lb at this point, so it is going to end up closer to 50lb @ 28" than I was expecting. Target weight was 45#, so a bit of sanding may be in order at the end.
Mark
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