Quote from: Roy from Pa on August 20, 2018, 07:20:10 AM
Craig...

http://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?topic=108946.0

That's a good read.  Thanks Roy!

Looks good Lonnie!  A very respectable group.

Listening to Santana on Pandora... Everything is cutting and grinding to a perfect 90*...  Fades sanded out nicely...  What could go wrong??  LOL...

   Making a bow for a friend...  New accent design that I been wanting to do for a while... Using Leopardwood in the grip area...  Might look pretty cool if I stipple it sometime down the line...

    [attachment=1,msg2815875]

    [attachment=2,msg2815875]

Nice lines and color combo Shredd

I got a blind put up and brushed in by a soon to be planted food plot.

[attachment=1]

I like battery operated tools, as I bought more my workbench disappeared under a sea of power tools and chargers.

I decided I wanted my workbench back so I built a new shelf dedicated to battery operated tools and chargers. I also consolidated my nut and bolt bins to a shelf of their own freeing up a shelf over my rolling tool box and workbench for the dust collecting nicknacks one usually collects on a workbench.

Everything is nice and neat now, at least on my workbench, I like neat.





 

Yep...  Caught the Ol' Bowform getting it on in my shop...     Wonder if it will be a boy or a girl...

[attachment=1]

Could be gender neutral 😳

Looks like a love child to me 

Quote from: Eric Krewson on August 28, 2018, 09:11:40 AM

Everything is nice and neat now, at least on my workbench, I like neat.

Tell me about it for the life of me I dont know how people can work with a cluttered work bench and never sweep the dam thing.  Lets face it all employers I worked for always stipulated to keep the work area tidy.  So I do the same in my private life.  And I hated picking up after people...........

I agree.  I do my best to keep my shop clean and organized.  Most importantly, I make myself put tools, clamps, etc, away when I'm done with them.  That makes a huge difference between a relaxing, Zen like, productive time in my shop vs frustration and anger that comes from not being able to find anything.

I'm not perfect, but I'm getting better!

A somewhat clean and organized shop is a must if you want to work efficiently...  However too clean of a shop is either wasted time cleaning instead of working in it or not being used at all...  That's my 2cents... 

  Well I had a long talk with the Doc today and he said considering all the conditions it might likely turn out to be a Transflexual...  I was shocked...  I said, Ok Doc I will love it anyway...   

Worked on arrows.....

You know, I've always hated using Ferr-L-Tite.  It isn't that it's a bad product, it's actually probably the best thing out there to glue field points to woodies, it's just a pain to use.  The alcohol burner or torch, melting the glue, heating the tips, Bah Humbug...

I swear, I tried dozens of different things instead of Ferr-L-Tite; Duco cement, various forms of super glue, hot melt glue gun, polyurethane glue, various epoxies (which don't work nearly as well as one might think), even drilling and cross pinning the heads onto the shafts.

I realized there are many good reasons why it's pretty much the industry standard, if only a guy could make the process a little faster and easier....  Hmmm....

The wife went to the gym so I decided to try this.  Worked. Like A. Champ!

Melted the glue over low heat on the stove in an Altoids tin.

After thoroughly cleaning all of the oil and residue from my field points, I heated them over medium-high heat on the stove in a skillet the wife doesn't care about. (or know that I used for this purpose)

Block of scrap wood to press the points against, some rags to wipe off the still molten excess glue, and a bowl of water to quench the tips in.

Over the last six weeks, I built two bows and made 60 laminated poplar-maple-poplar arrows.  The arrows are more complicated and time consuming than any bow I've ever built, but they're a lot of fun to make.

Laminating the shafts allows me to get a pretty uniform arrow in terms of spine, although the weight of each shaft can still vary considerably.  The first two dozen, I matched within 15 grains of eachother.  The rest are just what I call "back yard" arrows.  There is considerably more spread in the spine and weight range on these, but they're good for recreational shooting.

Craig, those arrows are just as purty as your bows

Very nice job and great idea on melting the glue.

Thanks guys!