2024 What did you do today

[dbeaver]

here is the profile of one limb its mirrored.  room for tips to be thinned down with accordance to how much the tips are working by the end of tiller.

a small morning session of balancing thickness from side to side throughout the limb, deepening nocks and heating tips and handle for better string alignment, not perfect but after i get it full brace ill have a better idea. I believe im ready for a regular string on this bow. Looks like itll be a recurve with baby hooks folks we will see at final tiller.

[Buemaker]

Looking good. Them curves can be a bit tricky.

[kennym]

Nice!!

[Pat B]

Looking real good. 
 Low brace now would be a good idea to see how the string tracks and see how the limbs bend on their own. If everything lines up and the limbs are balanced go to your intended brace height, check it out to full draw and take a few shots.   

[Ashs Gulch]

Put some hair on cow hide on the shelf of a old York Cadet and made myself a string jig.

[Richard Korte]

 I cut out the belly profile on 14 new risers for my version of the '59 Kodiak, both 60 and 64 inches, and the '60 Bear Kodiak Deluxe. I recently made a trip to Edensaw lumber in Pt. Townsend, WA and bought 3 great boards...one of curly Maple, one of figured Black Limba, and a third, a highly figured large slab of Maple. The limb veneers are all done...ready for risers. Now I'll begin the process of gluing on the riser trim, like the Purpleheart trim on the original '59 Kodiaks.

[Richard Korte]

Here's a photo of the boards I made the risers from.

[Burnsie]

That wood looks awesome Richard - That is going to make a nice batch of bows.
I know you don't take orders - how does one get on your "list".

[Kirkll]

A pair of sister sasquatch hybrid longbows i just completed... There is a good story to come on these bows...

[B-JS]

Roughed out a 21" ILF yesterday evening.
Bocote/Phenolic.
That will be pretty pretty, once finished.

[dbeaver]

cool idea for a quiver.   looks great absolutely holding that one in the back of my head

[Kirkll]

Roughed out a 21" ILF yesterday evening.
Bocote/Phenolic.
That will be pretty pretty, once finished.

Phenolic?   G-10?  Micarta?

[B-JS]

Micarta

[Kirkll]

Those interesting limb mount plates. Where did you get those at? and are they adjustable side to side?  Most ILF risers have lateral limb adjustment capability for adjusting for limb tracking using set screws.

Kirk

[B-JS]

They are ajustable.

Those are milled by my specs for me.

[chefrvitale]

My friend Tony is shopping for a new home and was kind enough to hire me to do his mortgage loan. I decided to build him a early house warming present to use this season.
So far, so good..... the epoxy started stiffening while I was in the middle of laminating, normally I have plenty of time. Would the heat effect that?temperatures were 90ish

[chefrvitale]

Pics

[onetone]

90 degrees is likely the cause of the early gel.

[Kirkll]

My friend Tony is shopping for a new home and was kind enough to hire me to do his mortgage loan. I decided to build him a early house warming present to use this season.
So far, so good..... the epoxy started stiffening while I was in the middle of laminating, normally I have plenty of time. Would the heat effect that?temperatures were 90ish

Having a good system down to spread your epoxy quickly and evenly is important. I use a flexible putty knife myself…. But on one piece bows that EA40 epoxy can start kicking off a bit before you have everything buttered and in the form if you mix too much at one time….. even with moderate temps in the shop. This makes it tougher to spread evenly with a putty knife.

On one piece bows where I’m using veneers under clear glass, I’ll mix two smaller batches of glue rather than one big enough to do the whole bow. The first batch allows me to get the glass and the back side lams and the riser in the form. Then I mix a second batch for the belly lams and glass.

Make sure your mix ratio is less than 50 / 50 resin to hardener and go heavy on the resin side. I like 2/3 resin to 1/3rd hardener the best.

   Hope this helps. Here is an old lay up video I did that shows how easy it is to spread with a putty knife.

[chefrvitale]

Coming along