2025 Bow Swap Progress Thread

[Kirkll]

I'm on that train Kirk, everything is modular and on wheels until I can get those features squared away.  Still need electric out here I'm running on the skeleton setup

How far from the house to the shop are you? Do you plan on running a welder?  Reason i ask was that i was able to run a conduit underground about 30 yards to the house and used some 8 gage solid copper wire i had from changing out our well pump wire years ago. That well pump is a 3HP motor that is 450' from the 220 volt power source. I  changed out the std. meter base at the house to a meter main base so i had a seperate circuit going to the shop and used an old 100 amp service for the shop. I've got plenty of juice for all my equiptment.

But unless you are familiar with electrical work, i'd highly recommend talking to an electrician for different ideas on how to do it safely.  My neighbor just built his new shop a few years ago, and just ran a new overhead 200 amp service to the shop, and the electric company hooked it up.  My shop was too far from the road to do a direct hook up without setting a pole.

I built my 36X36 shop  back in 96 and put a wood floor in it.   Kirk

[dbeaver]

Luckily my power box is on the property and maybe 16ft from the building. I could also run a similar setup pulling 100amps from my main panel if the power company doesn't want to run me a second meter.  200 to the shop would be nice so I can juice up some sheds in the future in a similar fashion to what you're saying.

[Kirkll]

Had a couple minutes waiting on ups so did a bit to keep me out of trouble with swap boss so here’s a pic 

Are you using the same blades for ripping lams as on that swing jig? 

I did a lot of riser footings with a swing jig years ago. I’ve still got a couple hanging on the wall someplace that I mount my router on.

 I had a big job years ago that had about 100 radius top windows and doors to build surrounds and casing for.  There were even a few completely round windows. Big Spanish design mansion on the river. That was a fun job. They brought me in early and I taught the framers how get the rough openings built correctly, then came back in the finish stage and did all the trim and two spiral stair cases. There were very few guys out there that wanted to mess with radius work, and I made double wages doing it…. Fun job

[kennym]

Same 3/4" blade, but that's about as tight as she wants...

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I was afraid this would happen with the curly hackberry. The grain didn’t hold up. The back let go around 18” after bracing. Oh well, I’ll use the limbs for handles and such. So time for the backup. This persimmon stave will be perfect for an English longbow.

Kyle

[4 point]

Dang that sucks Kyle. That was gonna be a nice one.

[4 point]

My victims bow is done. Need to make a string and put a rest on it yet but other wise finished.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I was really looking forward to seeing how it would polish out, but I knew that piece was a major gamble. But I already got that piece of persimmon roughed out and ready to tiller.
And that looks great!

Kyle

[Mo_coon-catcher]

This one is moving along pretty quick. Ready for a heat treat and pulling weight at full draw just getting it cleaned up and bending smooth. Now to heat treat and will probably nock an inch off each end. Then I’ll refilled back down. It came around rather quickly. About 2 hours from stave to tillered. The picture is a bit shy of full draw, I yoinked it to full draw after the picture.

Kyle

[Crooked Stic]

Be starting mine next week.

[dbeaver]

Im with you Stic, ill taper my lams tonight and post a pic to somewhat follow the swap thread rules 

[Noah70]

Got the pointy ends done today. Interestingly - all lams were from adjacent slices, all thickness perfect, even the thickness of the limbs after glue up at 3 locations was within 1/2 of a thousand, width identical, etc.   But one of the limbs was 3/4” stiffer at initial tiller.  Anyone ever had that happen?  Sanded out fine, but never had that happen before.

[Watsonjay]

Got the pointy ends done today. Interestingly - all lams were from adjacent slices, all thickness perfect, even the thickness of the limbs after glue up at 3 locations was within 1/2 of a thousand, width identical, etc.   But one of the limbs was 3/4” stiffer at initial tiller.  Anyone ever had that happen?  Sanded out fine, but never had that happen before.

Thats cool adding the riser stripe into the limb tips! 

[Crooked Stic]

4 point that looks like a pickup bed. What is it attached to ??

[4 point]

It’s a 70 C10

[Watsonjay]

Got the pointy ends done today. Interestingly - all lams were from adjacent slices, all thickness perfect, even the thickness of the limbs after glue up at 3 locations was within 1/2 of a thousand, width identical, etc.   But one of the limbs was 3/4” stiffer at initial tiller.  Anyone ever had that happen?  Sanded out fine, but never had that happen before.

Thats cool adding the riser stripe into the limb tips! 

Got the pointy ends done today. Interestingly - all lams were from adjacent slices, all thickness perfect, even the thickness of the limbs after glue up at 3 locations was within 1/2 of a thousand, width identical, etc.   But one of the limbs was 3/4” stiffer at initial tiller.  Anyone ever had that happen?  Sanded out fine, but never had that happen before.

Thats cool adding the riser stripe into the limb tips!

a taper slide during glue up? Maybe that doesn’t happen on takedown limbs?  I’ve never made any. Yet!

[Watsonjay]

Well I have the bow in the topless form with heat strips. I like it better than the old way i was doing it. Have at 60 psi but will check in 30 mins as the mule tape is new and so is air hose. I have it set to 120 and am going to ramp it up 10 degrees every 30 mins to 150 then let sit at 150 for 45 mins. Should be good I hope. Crazy how fast you go through 100ft of mule tape.

[kennym]

Ripped some wider glass so I can proceed … 

[Watsonjay]

All signs point to a good glue up. I really like the topless method with the firehose. Just need to remember to put the top heatstrip on before I rope everything down. 😡 there seemed to be a lot of bubbles on the out glue, hopefully that doesn’t mean there are a lot of bubbles behind the glass

[Watsonjay]

No bubbles so far, yeahhh!