This one turned out pretty good as well. It’s a little thinner than the other one and I’m not sure I like the finger grooves in the back overlay; I wanted to try it, but it’s one of those things where you gotta know when to stop. Also, these were the first two where I kind of gave up on the tillering tree that was confusing me. Someone said something about the tiller being built into the design of the fiberglass bows, so I did what Kenny shows in one of his build along and marked increments along the limb and compared width top to bottom. Then hand sanded them to match. I used a limb profile template instead of connecting two dots and that made the second one a lot easier to get right.
One thing that surprised and kind of confused me; the Australian walnut on the belly, I had dyed it green to match the lignum and rattlesnake skin. Under the glass it looks completely brown, like it was never dyed at all. The only thing I can think of is that when I started the heat strips, it went a few minutes without the thermocouple between the heaters, which causes the temp controller to run away. I did that once and in less than an hour it was close to 400 degrees, totally destroyed the bow. This time it was only 5 minutes or so and it reached about 260 to 280 or so before I caught it. Took a few minutes to cool down. It doesn’t seem to have affected anything, but I thought maybe the heat affected the color of that veneer. Although that was my first time using the dye (water based from Bingham’s).
Topic: Lignum Vitae color change at cure (Read 5454 times)
