Got my drum sander somewhat trued up. Came out at 3 thou across the 22" span. Tedious work. Got riser and bow #6 ready to shape the limbs on. Really like how this riser trned out. I beam and then overlays to hide it are tedious!
Laid up the first limb before I finished my coffee....got the maple on the back instead of the belly! Put the stack in the form upside down. So I had to do the other side to match. Straight taper wedge, action boo and maple with black glass
Don’t feel too bad about the upside down thing bro. Every bowyer that has laid up glass bows has done this at one time or another. It’s very easy to do. It’s doing one right, and the other one upside down that I hate….
I would encourage you to eliminate using masking tape on your glass before putting it in the form. It’s totally unnecessary bro. Just lay up your limbs, and wipe the glass clean before wrapping them in painters plastic. I used Saran Wrap when I first started, but like a thicker painters plastic better. The 4 mill is what I like best. I cut the plastic about 6” wide. Place the clean side down on the plastic, wipe the top side clean, and just use one fold over the top. After it goes in the form, I smooth out the plastic and place my pressure strip/heat strip on top, then fold the plastic back over the top, and zip tie it in place. This allows you to actually see the edge of the lams as they go into the form and check wedge alignment and stack sequence one more time too.
After it comes out of the form and you get the boogers knocked off the edges and ran through the drum sander for width, then use a couple short pieces of tape to lay out your boring and tip notch locations.
No more trying to surgically remove tape you have cooked on your limbs is a good thing…. Kirk
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