The father son hail merry build along

[greyhawk39]

My and I we decided to build a bow from stratch we took a unproven form and recipe and riser and came up with a one piece 52"bow.He build the bow himself with my guidance...Here he is grinding his desert camo riser.

 

[greyhawk39]

His next move is to drill a index hole for the center of the riser,then fit test to the form to check for center then glue up.

[greyhawk39]

I am screwin up my picture order...lol...Sorry I will try to get it better!

[greyhawk39]

[greyhawk39]

The wood clamped in place and heat lamps in the right position,I put the insulated foil back and let sit for 5 hrs.

[greyhawk39]

After the 5 hr period we removed the riser and ran it through the grinder to square up the edges.



After he squared the riser, I did a relief cut then I cut the curves out with the band saw.

[gudspelr]

Way to go, Dad-your son will remember this bow and the time you spent with him forever.


Jeremy

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Way to go man! I'll be watching this one.

[bjansen]

Looking great.  You could'nt find a better father/son project!

[Apex Predator]

Looking great!  You need to be careful with those lamps though.  At that distance mine will catch wood on fire.  Smooth-on epoxy will boil around 200 deg, and cause bad stuff to happen down the road.  I use a meat thermometer to check temp.  I try to keep them around 12" away for around 130-140 deg.

[greyhawk39]

Thanks fellas.My Joel is hard drived for building bows he just loves it.We have been building together since he was little.I used to get him to get on the other end of the performax and help me make laminations,just so to include him. Thanks Marty I will have to move the lights out abit farther...I only have 35 watt bulbs running.But I will have to check what temp I am at under the foil insulation...By the way that was a nice ebony longbow great job...Bj also nice 46" herters one piece I talked to Rodney Wright, on the history on how he came to make the stalker bow.I will have more pics tonight..thanks again...Jeff

[Swissbow]

That's looking great ! A great way to spend some good time with your son. I'm currently building a bow with my daughter Caroline and we both enjoy it very much. Their bows will always be special to them since they poured their heart into it.

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Andy

[Apex Predator]

Oh, I use 150W flood lights.  I can cook my supper under those suckers!  You should be fine.

[greyhawk39]

I rechecked Marty I have 60watt bulbs and yes they even through the heat but slow turtle wins the race, heat wise when drying glue.Caroline looks like she enjoys building bows with dad.
One thing about it,they are away from the Xbox.

[greyhawk39]

After rough cut.I smoothed and squared plus feathered fade outs.

[greyhawk39]

Joel measured and cut out the fiberglass.I rough cut 4 red elm laminations for him to grind to the right thickness.

[greyhawk39]

After he made his parrells to .60'.He then cut to length and prep them so the dye can be applied.



After we mixed the dye and set up the air brush and compressor preset the pressure to 15 lbs we are set to put the first strip of green camo.



Then brown and a lighter brown and feathered the green over both.



The finished product it turned out better than we thought it would with the edge grain red elm is gave it a bamboo kind of look.

[greyhawk39]

With a light hand he nicely feathers the dye with out splotches to the wood...he did a great job for never handling a air brush before,right on buddy.



We will be glueing up tomorrow.

[Thumper Dunker]

Awsome.

[greyhawk39]

Onto to the glueing stage.I wrapped the form with packing wrap.
 
He did a dry run and everything is going great time for glue up.