It looks real good and with the horn it will be a gem.

mike

Nice work so far John, I have to make room in my shop for a tiller tree like yours, I like it. Oh yeah the bow looks great too  

Dang..... That is looking good......I wish I had more money than looks and stood half a chance at gettin that bow......wait I do, all of a buck fifty worth, and I still don't....    :D   Terry

This bow is gonna be awesome! Keep up the good work guys.      

Horn after cutting to the bow profile, and thinned ready to glue.

Decided to add a very thin layer of bloodwood, roughly .0314587 thick.  
We will be adding weight with the belly lams.....but losing weight when we shape the flat belly into a nice round profile.  

This is getting good now...... John how thick is the horn and how much weight does it add?? Is it predictable or does it vary from horn to horn??... Terry

Dang I'm glad you gave us the rough thickness on the bloodwood.  Any more detail and my abacus would have burst into flames.

.031+ will add roughly 10 pounds to this bow.  So with that and the horn at .070 or so AND rounding we should be in the 55 pound range or so.

Although I have been fooled numerous times by yew.  That stuff is not as predictable as most woods.

Mike

Terry, a few years ago I would have said it's very predictable.  
Now I'd say it's as predictable as any natural material.  

The horn is about .090 to start....but I intend to thin it considerably after it is applied.   I just find it easier to glue when it's a little thicker.

The last bow I added BW/Horn to the belly added about 10#'s.   However this is a different profile, different core wood, different bamboo.  
We'll see what happens.  

Every bow I fiddle with has a surprise in store.....sometimes pleasant, sometimes maybe not so pleasant.   Hopeful this one will hold a nice surprise.

We'll use slime-on for this glue up.  I love the way it always ends up on parts of my body that it shouldn't.  

Some of the supplies and tools needed for the glue up.  

John,

I think the bloodwood will add a bunch to the bow.  both in performance and appearance.  Good Idea!!

Mike

We'll use a pressure strip of ¼" polycarb.  
2" clamps every 2" or so.

All clamped up and ready for the hot box.    

Awesome....            

After the initial clean up.....ready to re-tiller.

First bracing with horn.



First pull...Drawn to 24", weight is 50#



Got some work to do.....hope it doesn't break.  

What a filthy shop. Tools strewn about...and is that dust on the floor mat?

 

Tom, please accept my sincere apology for the mess.    I can assure you that I did get things cleaned up and organized right after the pictures.  
I catch a lot of ribbing over keeping a semi-clean shop.  I figure when the kitchen gets dirty....we clean it.    Toilet scummy?  Clean it.   Truck muddy?  Clean it.    I place a lot higher value on the time spent in the shop then the kitchen, toilet or truck.....so I figure I should take care of it at least as well.    

"I place a lot higher value on the time spent in the shop then the kitchen, toilet or truck" I like that statement John    The bow looks great, did you have to make any adjustments in tiller after adding the horn?

You wash your truck?  And you value your shop time more then toilet time.  Well go figure!!

I guess these guys from Iowa are just weird.

LOL

Mike

BTW how long did it take to clean a shop that CLEAN?

Dano, not done yet but I'll need to do some work to the outer 1/3 to get it to come around.  That's what it looks like after gluing the horn on and rounding the edges some.  
I'm not really tillering the bow, all I'm doing is gluing chunks of horn on and trying not to screw up Mikes glue up and JD's tiller.    

Mike, guys from Iowa weird?   Huh.  Guess we can't all be normal like you Texas fellers.