2025 What did you do Today

[wooddamon1]

Unwrapping the ace bandage showed me how much glue I used hahah, squeeze out cleanup took some scraping and cleaned up the edges of the backing.   Ready for some shooting and tillering tomorrow.

That's gonna be a beauty.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Those sturgeon skins look awesome on there!

After dealing with the furnace acting up today I got a little work done on a snaky Osage stave. After cleaning up it’s a little narrow and the handle area is quite small. So I shaped out a piece of cherry to somewhat match up then gave it a boil before tightly clamping into place. Tomorrow I’ll get it glued up. Once it dried I’ll glue a belly side block to thicken up the handle a bit more before I start tillering. There are still a few cracks that need attention before tillering. But it looks better than I expected it to before digging in

Kyle

[Mad Max]

That's going to be a looker Kyle 
 

[Jeff tech]

Finished a 68" Longbow for my  boss. 43# at 31"

[Bryan Adolphe]

Experimental recurve ! Its coming along.

[Kirkll]

Nicely done. Great string angle at full draw, and good looking DFC chart too. Looks like a winner to me.

[Shootrj2003]

I debarked the six staves I split from an ash log a tree crew had leftup in the reservoir dam area . It was free,still green and asking for a ride.This is my first try at this and while I got two good straight staves and three that might just make curvy kind of crazy bows and one that was only just arrows I did learn about splitting right .I might have done better by paying better attention to where I split it .but it was free and to give myself a little credit there were knots in wrong spots, some tree fungus and bruised areas from the felling actions ,all these things can obviously happen to a log even if it is perfectly straight and this was not perfectly straight but not horrilbly crooked just enough to screw things a bit.

[B-JS]

I finally got myself a proper Drilling/Milling Machine, for Bolt-down and ILF.

No more Drilling jigs, that will eventually wear out.

Completely different feeling, deep regrett, i waited so long.

[Kirkll]

Do you have a power feed for you X axis set up?  That is a full monty DRO set up...

This is the one i put on mine. It's a variable speed control that is very nice for milling.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/301148098764?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=301148098764&targetid=4581046493380274&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=603247657&mkgroupid=1239150647972013&rlsatarget=pla-4581046493380274&abcId=9316139&merchantid=51291&msclkid=c632d6541c6a1e29601fb1b4bd9620cd

What type of vice do you have on that table?    Kirk

[B-JS]

No Power Feed.
For the ILF Limbs, it works by Hand Operation or with assist of a cordless screwdriver.

I'll see, what else i will be doing with this new toy.

The Vice is a self centering one for about 100€.
Maybe i'll Upgrade this in the Future, but does the Job for now.

[Kirkll]

Trust me.... the power feed is a game changer with milling ILF risers....  I would recommend looking on ebay to find a good high quality Kurt vise... Your machine work is only as good as your vise holding the product, and well worth the investment.

I've got an older Kurt vise here that i had a couple of 1/4" steel plates fabricated to help me hold my riser blocks at different angles with enough height to keep from flipping your riser end for end. Those so called self centering vises can give you problems. Watch that baby closely.... It's always best to never flip that riser around and mill everything in a straight line. and ALWAYS check dead center and zero out your DRO with every set up after the riser has been placed in the vise.   You'll figure it out yourself as you go along. I just thought i'd share a few tips.   Any type of machinist work is all in the set up, and learning the feed rates and type of mill ends or cutters to use. For riser work i typically use router bits and end mills for setting location pins accurately.

Here is my set up.... I cheaped out on DRO and used slide micrometers for XYZ axis.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CuHzJm2a2sJ8Swiu8

Have fun with your new toy!  These things are great tools.

[B-JS]

Thanks for the hints.

I check for propper Zero and straightness before i drill.
After the Initial Setup, that took me like 1h for perfekt allignment, IT seems to stay true.

The only "milling" at the Moment is the Slot at the but of the ILF Limbs.
Bur this alone, is an absolute gamechanger compared to Drilling this with jigs....

The Vice was 100€ it does the Job, for the start.
I'll Upgrade this in the Future.

[Kirkll]

I just finished up another Sasquatch SS RC.....

Here is the build album if you want to take a look.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/K24Yz3gEbmN4nEhC9

[Buemaker]

Nice bow Kirk.

[Burnsie]

Finished up a stave vice I've been working on. I also plan to mount a conventional vice on a plate that I can swap out with the square tube. Supposed to rain this weekend, so I may get a chance to try it out.

[bdsmith1]

Wish me luck.
 

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[bdsmith1]

[BO-R]

I finally got myself a proper Drilling/Milling Machine, for Bolt-down and ILF.

No more Drilling jigs, that will eventually wear out.

Completely different feeling, deep regrett, i waited so long.

Good move, I love mine...makes all things good again!
Agree with Kirk... the powerfeed is a game changer, I found mine on alibaba for 130.00
good milling!

[BO-R]

Experimental recurve ! Its coming along.

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Nice looking setup there...still working on my static design..

[BO-R]

I generally build recurves mostly, but laid out a takedown hybrid.
gonna be 61.5" 45@28"