I took the weekend off and you are tillering a new bow already.....
Shooting it yet?

I don't know if you've set up your 2nd pulley yet, John, but I would also use something that is not as wide as the strap you're using to pull on the bow string in your pic (something like a carabiner clip works well... pretty much copy what Roy has in his picture!).

ND. good point, I used that because its as wide as my three fingers.

QuoteOriginally posted by mikkekeswick:
The tubes gives very even clamping pressure.

I had rubber give a bad clamp numerous times especially on tapered lam repairs.  On an even width in works out ok but I noticed that the center sometimes ends up with an air gap.

Wolf - that is because you used a thin back lam with no pressure strip. The 'rubber' didn't give you a bad glueline....the way you did it did!
I've glued up well over 200 lam bows and never had a bad glueline. I do know what i'm talking about or else I wouldn't waste everybodies time giving duff advise.
The first time it didn't work you should have stopped and worked out why rather than doing it again and again....

So... in the hopes of not derailing John's post, but since it was brought up...

Mike, what do you use as a pressure strip when gluing a backing to a belly lam? And do you put a strip on the outside of both back and belly? Or do you glue your bows on a form?

It depends which way you make your form, either so the belly lam is up or the backing lam is up. Either way your form comes first, then the stack of your lams then pressure strip then clamping method of your choice.

Well Johnny, how's it working out?

I think John has retired from bow making and is getting into chicken farming.    

I always thought he was a little flighty... Or maybe he's collecting feathers for primitive arrows..

LOL

Yeah, he with his chickens.    

So Johnny boy dances with chickens?

From here on out, he will be "Dances with Chickens"!

LOL    

Pat, it's been three days now..

Ya don't think ole Johnny fell in love in dah hen house do ya?  

Maybe could. Something's up.

Hope his chickens didn't get him. He went to poop and the chickens ate him.    

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Ole Johnny boy was ah chasen em.

I hope all is ok with him though. I was looking forward to the next bow tusima. LOL

Yeah, I hope he OK too. I haven't heard from John is almost a week.

Anyone heard from John?  Starting to worry about ol boy.

Haven't heard anything. Pat and I were talking about him in PM's. We are both concerned about him.

Thanks guys, I would of at least checked in but 16 hrs a day to catch and clean 36 houses. The only thing I checked in with was my pillow, getting to old for that crap. Should be pretty normal for awhile anyhow. Obviously the bow is still the same hope to do some tomorrow.