I have had extra time on my hands. So I thought I would try to do a build along. So here goes. I will be attempting to make a 62" bow out of Claro walnut and curly Koa. The first thing I am going to do is cut out some riser parts.

Here is the walnut.                                                                                        

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                                                                          Once the block was cut out square I cut  the profile for the flare.

Time to move on to the Koa.                                                          

The first cut in the Koa.                                                                  

Wow, freehanding those cuts would be a bear for me. I would never get them to fit!

X².... really handy!

That is some beautiful wood    

After those two cut its time to fit them together.



I am not good enough with the saw for them to fit . So I have to sand them with a drum. The sanding drum has a stop on it and
I use a pattern to get every thing exact.

Looking good bud.   Love my brushwolf.

That's going to look sharp, looking forward to following along.
-Jay

Very nice! I love claro walnut ... very nice.

Keep it coming!!  Looking very nice.

Very nice!  Love the wood combo!

The first joint is ready . Now to move to the other one.

Can you show the sander stop and pattern set up?

For the next joint I just start over by cutting out the shape. Then sand to the line using the other half of the pattern.

QuoteOriginally posted by beachbowhunter:
Can you show the sander stop and pattern set up?

I will get a pic or two put on as soon as I can. The drum I use is 2x3 with 36 grit paper. It seems to do the best job for me .

Here is the drum. The black wheel on the bottom is what I call a stop.

As for the patterns they are 1/2" plywood. Each one has a center line to keep everything straight. They also have makes to tell me were the lines for the joint is going to be. I line all the marks up an two face tape the pattern down. The pattern usually set around 1/16 back from the edge to allow every thing to clean up.



It definitely took me sometime to get the patterns to fit up before they were ready to be used.