Gonna look sweet dude.

Very nice Tom!!! Wow!!

Luckily, none of my, now shorter, fingernails are showing. 40 Grit planer belts will trim them rather quickly.

Yup, and cutting that close to a bandsaw blade with a little piece of material and no pusher block will take more off than a fingernail too....

But yea, I'm guilty of doing it too.

I'm looking forward to seeing this bow in person.  Just finished the stacked leather and super glue handle overlay and shelves on the team osage bow yesterday.  A guy surely does tend to get a little "stage fright" working on these bows.  At least I do..... takes some conviction to take a rasp to a special bow don't it.

Yup, no fear Dave. It's all in the control.

If you look in the saw pic, there is a piece of scrap wood to finish the cut with. It's nice to keep all of your fingers.

Looking great Tom.   Looks like you've done that a time or two before.  

O.K. Got a little more work done last night. After the slabs are glued on, we can do some hogging on the bench sander. Just gotta be careful. Gives you a nice place to start with hand tools, although the whole thing can be finished with hand tools from here.

Upper tip. I left a little more here because I'm going to shape it a bit differently.

Lower tip will be simple and sleek when done.
 

I generally go from here with a #50 rasp, then I like to scrape tool marks away and get closer with a razor blade or utility knife blade, then finish up with one of those 4-way foam buffing files used for nails.

Here's the lower tip after shaping and buffing. I still have to file and sand the string groove but it's pretty much to shape.

Lower tip
 
Viewed showing some of the backside or actually the belly side.
 

Today is Shelby's birthday (she's 12!), so no bow work tonight. Look for an update Thursday, then it should be ready to go to Dave.

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Sorry folks, I've been battling the flu since yesterday but I've managed to get a little work done. There's still some final shaping and finishing touches on the upper tip yet. I'll post pics when it's done. We'll see how I feel tonight.

No Problem Tom! Heck we got time and would rather have you at your best when working on this gem.  LOL

BTW make sure to wipe any germs off before sending it on.

MIke

WOW! I love the horn bellies I been seein round here lately.

It will be disinfected

LOL

Mike

Tom, don't forget I need to know the final length for the string. Oh yeah and tell Shelby happy belated birthday.

Will do Dano.

I'm finally pretty much done with this flu bug. Last 4 days sucked. It's raining today so the humidity in the shop is way up. I'll prolly finish up tomorrow after work. Either way, it'll be on it's way to Dave this week. I'll measure for the string length after I send an arra or two out of it. It's probably going to pick up more speed now, since horn is lighter ya know.

How is it looking Tom?

I should finish tonight. Had too much running to do last night.

It's getting oooh so close. Lots of tedious handwork when you are trying not to screw up such a great bow. I had it strung up for a bit and you can just feel the power in this bow.
   
I have one finishing touch to do tonight, then maybe send a couple arras through it before getting it in the mail to Dave. Look for pics tomorrow.