2024 What did you do today

[Burnsie]

My down and dirty string stretcher:

[Burnsie]

A beautiful day to haul some yellow wood out of the woods.  Six more like this to go, 2 at a time.

[Jon Lipovac]

Nice Burnsie!

You guys got me thinking I really needed to hang my tillering scale on the wall so I ended up moving some bikes and mounted it on the outside of the shop partition wall since there is literally no room in the shop.
Sometimes you just need a little nudge.

[Bryan Adolphe]

Perfect Jon …. Nice shop ! Great use of space !

[Kirkll]

I envy you guys with small shops that keep everything neat and clean sometimes. I couldn’t even fit all my wood in a 12x24’ area packed in tight.

 I’ve got a 36x36 pole barn with a wood floor that has a 24x36’ loft area, and I’m still constantly pig piled, and have sawdust on the floors…organized chaos is what I’d describe my shop. I do a good spring clean up every year when I can open up the doors and blow all the dust out and burn my scraps. The saw dust from my table saw alone could fill two 55 gallon drums in one winter. I shovel it into big garbage bags from time to time when it starts getting too deep around the saw and set it outside. I should be embarrassed by my messy shop, but I’m not… when I start tripping over stuff, I roll up my sleeves and swamp it out…. lol

[Buemaker]

That yellow wood looks nice and good idea Jon.

[Jon Lipovac]

Kirk.
I’m sure if I had a separate building like yours, I wouldn’t be as neat as I tend to get working and tools, sandpaper, scraps, and parts are everywhere. With a bigger space It would just be a bigger mess to clean up.
I new from the start though, having the shop attached to the house, that dust collection was going to be paramount. Even then it’s tough. When I mill anything out of aluminum, we inevitably end up with shavings all over the floors in the house.

[Kirkll]

I remember the day I finished building my shop and only had one work bench along the south wall and all that open space… We had a New Year’s Eve party with about 20-30 people out there and broke in the shop floor with spilled beer and dancing…

I had a lot of my buddies give me a hard time about not pouring a concrete slab for the floor. They said “You’ll never be able to get a truck in here to work on it.”  I told them , “ Yup…. And I won’t have your truck in here either, along with all the greasy tools.”  This was designed as a wood shop, and has been used for one since I built it in 96’.   I did work on a couple boats in there before I got into bow building. I thought about staying with boat works for awhile too, but really didn’t have it set up for that with only one 12’ door. That… and I wasn’t fond of fiberglass work anyway.

I built a few cabinets and some furniture here and there, and filled part of the loft with hay each year for many years. We raised our own beef and put up about 4 -5 tons to feed through the winter months. I finally gave up on the cows in 2020 and bought a bigger boat… lol. Boats don’t eat hay and get out of the fence by themselves. I’m done with those type ranch chores all the time. It was never ending work tending fences and chasing cows. We just buy a 1/2 beef each year now from a neighbor. Lot less hassle, same home grown beef.     Kirk

[Kirkll]

This morning i got my latest bow set up.  64" Sasquatch SS, 21" riser medium limbs. She's braced a 6 3/4" in this photo and should probably go up to 7" for best performance. These are the 76 @ 28" limbs. The second set weigh 97 @ 28"  and the archer draws to 30". It weighs  105 @ 30".

Here are a few more photos if you are interested.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/MbpkpzAXqq6y3VB28

[Crooked Stic]

65 more than I need.

[mmattockx]

65 more than I need.

+1. 105# is a foot bow for me.


Mark

[Crooked Stic]

Okay so I decided using an already good limb design and tweaking a bit. The shorter riser and shorter wedge helps keep the working limb length just an inch shorter than a 61 in. Bow. This one being 56 in.shooting for 40@28 and got 43@28. Considered myself lucky to get that close. Anyhow I got it going today. Seems pretty good out to 29,

[BO-R]

Well i just retired from my job after 46 years...
HEEEHawww!

[Burnsie]

Well i just retired from my job after 46 years...
HEEEHawww!

Only 46 years - slacker. 
Seriously - congratulations! If things go as planned I'll be out in 4-5 years at 66 years old.

[Pat B]

Congrats guys. Quite a milestone.   

[Buemaker]

46 years WOW

[Pat B]

I got married 46 years ago but don't see a retirement in my future.     

[wood carver 2]

Congratulations!
Four years left for me , unless I get really lucky… 🙂
Dave.

[Burnsie]

Took a crack at my first "primitive" arrow.
The shaft is a Red Osier shoot.  A gentleman sent me a small bundle of them many years ago. I've had them tightly zip tied togehter in  my storage room until now. Hope to run it through a deer this Fall. I'm going to make a couple more, hopefully each one will be an improvement - this first one was a bit of a challenge and is a little rough.

[Bryan Adolphe]

I got my sander finished on the weekend.

Found a cool figured piece of tigerwood had to buy