Project "Blonde"

Glunt · February 26, 2012, 02:00:00 AM

A buddy has been slowly working on building his own bow with me. Today we got her glued up. I had to knock the glue off and remove the tape and see what we had. Osage & hickory riser, Aboo cores, quilted maple veneers. I think it will end up pretty nice but its plenty bright!

rmorris · February 26, 2012, 02:15:00 AM

Project "sweet" more like it. What a good friend you are, if I were you that bow would disappear and you friend would have to start all over.

recurvericky · February 26, 2012, 09:53:00 AM

Looking good.

Trux Turning · February 26, 2012, 10:23:00 AM

Nice-that maple looks nice left natural.

KeithG · February 26, 2012, 10:30:00 AM

nice. Is it hard to get started? I have been thinking on starting on some. I need to build some for the family.

jsweka · February 26, 2012, 10:56:00 AM

Nice.
It will look even better once the osage starts to darken a bit.

Glunt · February 26, 2012, 11:52:00 AM

Keith:

The first one takes a while. But, after you have a form built and build one bow to get some hands-on experience it actually goes pretty fast.

I didn't buy any plans or a kit, but that would be a faster way to go. Check out Kennys Custom Archery (sponsor). He has a good write-up on building a form, is a great supplier of wood, glass, & glue, and has an inexpensive template that many guys have used to get started. I built or modified 4 forms before I got a keeper.

It is addicting and there's always something new you want to try on the next bow.

Dmaxshawn · February 26, 2012, 03:08:00 PM

Looks good. I like the natural colors too.

red hill · February 26, 2012, 03:14:00 PM

Looks good, Glunt.

monterey · February 27, 2012, 06:11:00 PM

Like those maple veneers! Did you get them from Kenny?

Hope your friend appreciates that bow!

Glunt · February 27, 2012, 10:07:00 PM

Those are Kenny veneers. Curly maple (I typed "quilted" above). I get most of my lams from Kenny. I just glued up one last night with lams from Binghams. They are fine but not matched up like Kenny's and no one ships faster than he does. I'm doing a couple test bows to get my stack right on this form and then I'm going to try one with Kenny's "Superlam".

kennym · February 27, 2012, 10:14:00 PM

Looks great Don!!

JJB · February 28, 2012, 08:08:00 PM

Looking good!
-Jay

monterey · February 29, 2012, 11:15:00 AM

Glunt - Kenny, What the heck are "superlams". :confused:

old coyote · February 29, 2012, 11:28:00 AM

Wow! that's nice.

kennym · February 29, 2012, 07:23:00 PM

UMM, its a .001 taper that eveolved into a taper with powerlam and tip wedge builtin , so you don't have to chase em when they are covered in bow snot and squirtin around like greased piglets!

monterey · March 01, 2012, 10:35:00 AM

Kenny, can you custom taper those supers?

kennym · March 02, 2012, 10:12:00 PM

Waht kinda taper are you lookin for, Mike?

monterey · March 03, 2012, 10:28:00 AM

I'm thinking of a typical taper out to within 7 or eight inches of the ends wher it would thicken fairly rapidly. To be used in making a static recurve. I have a Howatt cavalier built this way. A nice shooter although it could have a bit faster taper in the inside portion. It bends a bit much at the fades.

monterey · March 03, 2012, 10:29:00 AM

I would need to sit down with calipers and calculator to arrive at actual taper rate. Gotta go to work right now but can get to it maybe on Sunday.