Quote from: Mad Max on January 03, 2021, 09:27:52 PM

Quote from: Flem on January 03, 2021, 07:15:13 PM
Bad glue joint?

Yes  <-----Me
I got one limb glued up with some reflex today wif Smooth-on

Yestaurday

Quote from: Mad Max on January 04, 2021, 09:06:53 AM

Quote from: Mad Max on January 03, 2021, 09:27:52 PM

Quote from: Flem on January 03, 2021, 07:15:13 PM
Bad glue joint?

Yes  <-----Me
I got one limb glued up with some reflex today wif Smooth-on

Yestaurday

I know was agreeing wif ya....

Making fish air bladder glue today. If I do not get glue I'll invite some Chinese to fish bladder soup.



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Thats a lot of fish bladders! What species of fish?
That soup would stick to your ribs eh?

Hain't you supposed to use tree sap for glue?

What the heck kind of trad bowyer are ya?

LOL

I bought the dry bladders from China some years ago. I think they are from a croaker fish.
Tree sap we use as moustache wax and attaching arrow points.

I forgot to ask Bue, what do you use your fish glue for?

Flem. It is good for sinew backing bows and I have been thinking for a while to make a Turkish style horn bow. Mostly I guess I am a wood and glue nut, like to make different stuff.

Quote from: Buemaker on January 04, 2021, 02:44:52 PM
Flem. It is good for sinew backing bows and I have been thinking for a while to make a Turkish style horn bow. Mostly I guess I am a wood and glue nut, like to make different stuff.

Build-a-longgggggggggggg time.
I would like to see that being made no matter how long it takes

Bue's soup shop.

Curbside delivery.....

Would probably make more more money selling soup than from bow making. Bladder soup takes long time though, two days soaking and 8 hours boiling.

I could be there by the time it ready

Would you like it with dumplings?

Result 2,4 liters of liquid glue, how much when dryed remains to be seen.
Drying on shallow plastic lids.

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Hmm soup that really sticks to your innards 

I can imagine the smell......  But I'll refrain from any analogies

smells like fish pee

Here is the first one cured




And I glued up the other end today
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Some Buffalo Horn for the tips

Did the first dry run for my first glue up today. Had a few things that need tweaking before things will move forward, mostly needing to do some refining of the ends of the fades on the riser to get things mating properly. This is the deflex glue up where I take the belly lams and core and pull them back into deflex before pulling that assembly forward into reflex when the backing is glued on.

First, an overall shot showing all the posts in place with the riser, core lam and belly lams clamped in place:



A closer view of the riser area and the fades. Thanks to Mark for the suggestion to extend the ramp that the belly lams are bent against, that worked great:



I ended up with gaps on the ends of the fades on both sides. On the right I need to fine tune the riser curve a bit since it looks like there is a dip the belly lam is not dropping into. On the left the end of the riser is simply not thin enough yet to let the lams close together properly:





I ended up removing the posts closest to the riser, which gave more room to clamp the lams together and let the pieces bend a bit more naturally:



I will rework the ends of the riser and see if that has solved the gaps problem and then can move forward with a real glue up.


Mark

looking good!

QuoteThis is the deflex glue up where I take the belly lams and core and pull them back into deflex before pulling that assembly forward into reflex when the backing is glued on.

Deflexing the belly lam before glueup, but reflexing the backing? What profile are you hoping it will be when it's time to tiller?