I just happened to go into one of my favorite stores and found 2 x 2 x 18 blocks of osage and wenge wood for 10 dollars each. Well I'll just go ahead and buy those two and mate them up to make some bows. So I hot melt them together and them band saw them and it should be a almost perfect fit or is there another trick to mating wood for swoops in risers. All help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Shawn
My bandsaw is not the best, so I cut the first piece and then have to sand the saw marks out. I then trace the clean edge on the other piece. Yeah, I waste some wood occasionally. I wish I could afford good blade guides and tires for my worn out saw!
Shawn,
I do the same thing that Apex does with the rickety old band saw and the sander. The one other step that I do after grinding is to tooth the wood using an 18 tooth per inch hack saw blade. This roughens the wood and increases the glue area making a stronger joint.
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this is what it does to the wood after two passes.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/longbowpete/peanut/DSCN0025.jpg)
pete
I sand my surfaces with 36-50 grit and have never had a problem. I would think that the rough surface from toothing would cause you to have a fuzzy glue line? I could be wrong though.
I have toothed the risers when glueing them together but not on the fades. Like Marty said I sand with a 36 belt.
Thanks Shawn