2021 Bow Swap Progress Thread - Complete

[Longcruise]

There is a law subordinate to Newton's law that goes like this.

"A finished riser block, unsupported in the presence of the earth's gravitational pull, will always land on it's feathered fade."

And so it was with the trade bow riser as it fell from the form fully slathered in EA40.         With no other riser to take it's place the brakes were put on the lay up and the glass, lams and tip wedges that were also on the form became trash.  Luckily the remaining parts were not yet coated with glue.

No pictures cause I'm hoping that Roy's law:  "It didn't happen wif out pitchers" will somehow influence the time warp and undo the event. I'll give it 24 hours.   

[rainman]

That sucks, but funny the way you explained it.

[Roy from Pa]

Damn that sucks Mike.

[Longcruise]

Damn that sucks Mike.

Yeah,  I can use the damaged block in another build but not in this trade bow.   The length is too critical.   Onward!!

Rainman, some of my exclamations immediately after were not so funny.  Luckily no children were around.!! 

[Buemaker]

OUCH. I have lost one on the floor too, luckily before glue up.

[skeaterbait]

Out of the cooker and in the grinder.

[Mad Max]

Thanks Shredd for a very nice bow. I haven’t shot a bow from someone else for several years. The bow I got in the swap is mid 40’s and 62”...perfect. Has a good amount of reflex and feels pretty quick with good tension on the string at brace height. It shoots really nice for me.

You got a nice bow there Bird
Nice job Shredd

[Mad Max]

A lot of good looking bows being made.  I need to step up get my trade bow glued up.

I got a set of risers glued up and a couple of weeks back then started to true them up on my thickness sander. Unfortunately, the adjusting table quit working and required a complete disassembly and rebuild.  I ordered the needed parts, rebuilt/assembled everything (several times), and finally have it adjusted and working like a new machine. 

Here are a few pictures of the risers, bocate and Brazilian Rosewood, profile sanded and ready for glue up:

Nice job on the risers Walt

[Mad Max]

Nice Skeeter

Sorry about that Longcruise

[Walt Francis]

I got back to the trade build on Saturday, With the drum sander working I sanded all the lams to the desired thickness, tapered the but ends with my butt splice jig, then glued them together.

The lams glued together, laid out, and ready for the glue up.

No pictures of the glue up but I did film it with my new to me GoPro.  I haven’t had the time to pull individuals pictures from it yet.  I have been practicing using the GoPro whenever possible to improve the quality of my hunting videos.



I this morning after taking the bow out of the form.

Cleaned up the epoxy, ran thru the drum sander and squared everything up.  Before narrowing to my desired thickness of 1.30” I run the string line and verified everything was aligned.

Narrowed down to 1.30” and the limbs tapered to 1/2” at the tips.

[Walt Francis]

Some day I will figure out why the photos turn 90* when I upload them

[4 point]

Looking great Lonnie and Walt!

[Walt Francis]

Handle and tip overlays ready to glue up....almost.  Forgot the Bocate for the handle over lay.  Luckily I found a 1/8” piece in one of my buckets, narrowed it, then cut it to shape and added it to the stack.

Set up in my overlay form.  Really the overlay form for my recurves but with a couple of shims it works fine for my longbows.

The tip overlays glued and clamped in place.  Note the wooden blocks taped below the overlays, they keep the overlays from sliding down while I wrap them with plastic wrap.  The plastic wrap holds the overlays in place and keeps them from slipping while apply the clamps.

[Roy from Pa]

Nice job, Walt.

I rotated the pictures and replied to your PM.

[Buemaker]

Looking good Walt and Skeater

[Mad Max]

Looking good Walt and Skeater

X2

[Longcruise]

Slick tip on keeping the overlays in place.   

[Longcruise]

 

[Roy from Pa]

Heck Mike just scarf a little piece on each end and call it a bow..

 

[Shredd]

  Great looking bows guys...  Cruiser... Looks like an issue with grain direction...  Better now than later...