Quote from: Mad Max on February 11, 2021, 10:28:29 AM

It's currently -34C here with a -50C wind chill. Yours doesn't look too bad to me... 


Mark

It's all relative, Christmas week of 1983 Southern Minnesota had bitter cold. Every night down to -30 or so and highs from -5 to -10.  My in-laws were visiting from Illinois, rented a car and drove up. They were with us most of that week then took the rental car to the airport and flew to Florida to visit relatives down there. The day they arrived there the temp dropped to the somewhere in the 20's and the next few days highs only in the 30's. They called and said it felt colder down there than when they were up with us at Christmas.  It appears that the humidity, dampness in the air, has a lot to do with this.  Talked with friends from Minnesota stationed at the great lakes navel base outside Chicago and they said they had never been colder due to the moisture, lake does not freeze up there? That said I can feel for you down there in Mississippi this week.

My shop is going to take a few hours to warm up so I thought I would fabricate some new spindle sanding sleeves. I could never find any Zirconium sleeves, so I decided to make them. There is a pretty good how too on y-tube by an instrument maker. The only thing I do different is the protective wrap on the rubber spindles. The Luthier used parchment. I'm using clear packing tape because I could not figure out how to keep anything in place, parchment is like teflon!
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I forgot to mention that since I started making them, I have seen them for sale from knife making suppliers. But at $6-$10ea, I think I will continue to make them myself


I will just add a link to this post. This guy pretty much covers the whole process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2QT0LjLSw

Cool...  Maybe you could do a 'how to' thread on your process...

Quote from: Bvas on February 09, 2021, 01:38:33 PM
Got about 8" of snow last night, so I had a snow day with the kids
Spending the day processing a doe I shot last week.

Took a little break to enjoy the fruits of my labor. 

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I did a double take because we have exactly the same dishes and we have similar tastes in food 

Ah heck never mind 

Quote from: kennym on February 11, 2021, 12:12:22 PM
Ah heck never mind 

My EA-40 got here today

Quote from: Minnesota Bill on February 11, 2021, 11:04:33 AM
It appears that the humidity, dampness in the air, has a lot to do with this.

The weather people will tell you that the humidity has no effect on perception of cold, but I will disagree. Most anyone who has experienced damp cold will tell you that slightly cold and damp is typically much more uncomfortable than more cold at lower humidity levels.


Mark

90* with 90% Humidity Is hot and wet

Another day of too dang cold!  :(

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Put a new table cloth on the work bench...

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Dinner for six?

[attachment=1,msg2952062]Some years ago I glued up this glass bow. Out of the form I saw that belly glass and lams had been riding on one of the side supports close to the fade so there was a gap. I filled the gap with superglue, rough shaped the limbs and shot it a few times and put it on a shelf. Today I decided to try and save it. Stripped off the belly glass and are grinding down to the back lam. Will try to glue on new belly lams and glass. Just might work, just pi- - me off when I screw up.

Get er done Bue...

Nice Bue you floor ever see dirt. 

Roy is dat a gwass bow oven in da background 

Got a bit more done on my splicey osage. After I worked out my scales had magically gained extra poundage (?) it's now at 45# @ 18" and still only picking up about the same amount of deflex as when I started. Finally starting to feel like a bow, rather than a log of wood in the shape of a bow 

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What's the best way to reduce tip weight? Side tiller as I get closer to full draw, keep going as I am but take off as much from the sides as I can while keeping the tips stiff, bit of both?

Could be a longish while til I get it close to shooting in, about to start the grape harvest/vintage for this year 

Looks good Steve.

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Stickypops what's you yapping about?

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The best way to reduce tip weight is to leave the tips thick(1/2" or so) and to narrow them down to 3/8" or less. Wood is a lot stronger in thickness than in width. I usually save this until I get to brace so I can see how the string tracks. You can make adjustments just by reducing the width on one side moving the string over.