What did you do today 2014

[Roy from Pa]

What is it a walking stick/cane?  

[canopyboy]

Nice shop Bue!

Bought my Maryland NR license today. Going to a buddy's farm this weekend and I have Roy's second-hand sika hunt in January. Hope my luck improves. It's been a long season so far.

[Buemaker]

Photobucket drives me nuts at the moment, can only post one picture at the time and difficult to copy, the mark and copy box just flashes.
Well, I made a full lenght taper board. This is by no means a new invention, but I have not seen pics of one before. I first jointed and machine planed a hardwood board 78"x2"x1/2". I then contact cemented two tapers from MC with the thin ends in the middle of the board, Since the tapers were 36" long and I wanted the whole thing to be 78" long I put a spacer in the middle with the same thickness as the taper's thin ends. I then contact cemented a long strip of 120 grit abrasive paper on top. When I place a parallel lam on top it can be run through a planer or lam grinder. A lam grinder is best if you want a real thin finished product. But to make a little thicker lam for a trilam all wood bow the planer works just fine. I used a short haired roller to spread the contact cement. Bue--.

[Buemaker]

Roy you should know that I am just a spring chicken, and have no use for a walking stick. Bue--.  

[Roy from Pa]

Ya you're a spring chicken all right..    LMAO

[Buemaker]

He he. Nice bird. You've been looking into them bottles of your's again? LOL. Bue--.

[cunruhshoot]

nice looking bow  - Bamboo

And Bue - That shop of yours is sweet from what we can see. I would love to see more pics.

[Zradix]

...ordered a new pump for my home heat..
..there goes my bow making/breaking money again....
..I was gettin so close....
               

[canopyboy]

Ouch John, that always hurts!

[Buemaker]

Cunruhshoot. I'll try to post a couple of pics from my shop, that is if Photobucket is not playing tricks again.

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[Roy from Pa]

Pretty awesome ole boy...    

[darin putman]

For crying out loud buemaker that's your shop. Very nice I would show pictures of your shop to my wife but then again she'd just show me pictures of somebody else's house.

[BenM]

Great shop Bue!  Incredible

[Zradix]

Bue....I'd live there.
well done!  

[Ranger44]

What a shop Bue!  All that's missing is an easy chair and big screen tv and it would look like someone's family room.

[jsweka]

Bue - That shop is nicer than my house.

Tonight I put the first coat of finish on two new mild r/d longbows I started on Thanksgiving.  One is for the son of my advisor from back in my grad school days at WVU.  And I figured while I was making him a bow I'd make one for myself since the bow I used this season was unlucky and didn't bring any deer in for a shot this season.  I'll get some pics up once I'm done with the finish process.

[cunruhshoot]

Thanks for the pic Bue - I think!? Now I am dealing with jealousy. I call a bow building party at Bue's place!