2022 what did you do today?

[Kirkll]

At North Myrtle Beach with the grandkids today. We brought out bows as there is a local club that does guest passes.

While having my morning coffee,  I Google for wood working supply stores near me.
Literally 1 mile from the campground is a hardwood and slab place that claims to have exotic lumber as well. Going to go wood shopping today!

That could leave a mark….

[Longcruise]

At North Myrtle Beach with the grandkids today. We brought out bows as there is a local club that does guest passes.

While having my morning coffee,  I Google for wood working supply stores near me.
Literally 1 mile from the campground is a hardwood and slab place that claims to have exotic lumber as well. Going to go wood shopping today!

Hillbilly,  I visit their regularly.   Can you post the info on the place and your impressions.

[Appalachian Hillbilly]

Small place, not a large selection of exotics.  Medium prices. Nice people though!
Had some real nice slabs and projects they were working on.

I believe they do alot of domestic wood and slabs.

Picked a piece of granadillo, canary wood and a enough 8/4 Wenge to make riser accents for a long time!

You never know when a place is going to have that one piece that jumps out at you.

[Buggs]

Hillbilly, if you live near a large urban area, check to see if there is an urban sawmill. I've seen some exotic wood I'd never heard of, in those places.

[Mad Max]

We should not get this weather until July/Aug., but it's here

[kennym]

Bout same here, I really dislike hot weather...

[Pat B]

Same here but just in the low 90s. Humidity is high too. We moved to the mountains to get away from this kind of weather.
We did have a nice thunderstorm this afternoon which dropped the temp to the 60s. Gonna cool down this weekend with night temps in the upper 50s.

[Longcruise]

Same here.  At least the humidity is low.

[Kirkll]

We haven't even seen an 80 degree day yet. last two weeks we had maybe 3 days that it even hit 70. Nights are high 40's and a lot days that were barely 60 degree days. The columbia river was at flood stage a few days ago, as well as the rest of our rivers around here. very long, cold spring weather, with record rain fall going back 80 years.... It's not even summer like at all in the Portland Oregon area. Our corn needs some sunshine real bad... 

What i did today was a magic trick repairing a RC limb that was split by improper stringing. I got the limb back and the belly glass was split just below the hook for about 4-5 inches right about dead center of the limb and lost its torsional stability completely. I surgically removed the glass and replaced it after injecting the split core with thin super glue.....

Now comes the fun part trying to balance it out to match the lower limb. and still keep it tracking straight.  I've pulled this magic trick off a couple times now. But sometimes you get da lion, and sometimes da lion get you...     


Kirk

[Longcruise]

Two weeks ago we had 10 inches of wet snow.   Hauled an 6 x12 trailer heaped with limbs out of the back yard.  Now my grass is drying up.   

[Shredd]

   Drink some Sassafras tea for about two weeks...  It thins the blood and helps you to acclimate to the hot weather... Don't drink all the time after that... It is known to be carcenogenic... Old mountian remedy...

[B-JS]

We will have 90-100+ at the weekend, over here in Germany.
I just try to figure out, how to use my grill, while i'm in the pool.

[Appalachian Hillbilly]

At the beach with the grandkids. Was 95 Tuesday.  Finally cooled down to the high 80's.... This mountain boy misses his mountain climate!

[Buggs]

Sounds like good bow cooking weather 

[mmattockx]

very long, cold spring weather, with record rain fall going back 80 years....

Same here. I don't think we are at record rain fall levels yet, but it has been a miserable cold, wet spring. Just had 4+" of rain on Monday - Wednesday this week, it's raining now and supposed to be wet all weekend. The only consolation for me is I am finishing our basement and the crappy weather makes it easier to be inside working on the house.


Mark

[Buggs]

I like the wet weather. I figure to enjoy it until the western US and Canada dry up in a couple weeks and smoke season starts.

[Kirkll]

Well..... My limb repair failed measurably this time. The glass replacement came out flawless, but the core was obviously damaged worse than i had hoped for and the stable core split down the middle too. I did get the bow strung after the repair, but I couldn't even draw it....Oh well... i gave it a shot.

This was a very light draw weight limb. 42 @31" using a #3 limb Bare RC with a 21" riser that gives me a 66" bow. These are not very strong limbs even in perfect condition, and require great care in making sure the tracking is perfect and you are very carefully when in stringing them. This one was damaged using a long bow stringer that puts all the pressure on the tips, and it went sideways.....

For those of you that think the belly glass adds a lot to stability.... Well it sure doesn't do it alone. that core is a very important part of torsional stability.    Food for thought.    Kirk 

[onetone]

Seems to be wide spread extremes - serious drought here with a 340,000 acre forest fire started by the feds controlled burn that has been raging since April 6th.

[beachbowhunter]

After reading all the posts on the weather, I'll refrain from talking about what it's like here in San Diego... 

[kennym]

Seems to be wide spread extremes - serious drought here with a 340,000 acre forest fire started by the feds controlled burn that has been raging since April 6th.

We burn 6' tall grass in CRP fields here, and the running joke is there is no such thing as a controlled burn.