My next bow build ( All done!)

Crittergetter · December 30, 2014, 07:39:00 PM

With deer season winding down I figured I needed another project, and what would be better than a bow!!! Got a shipment from Big Jim yesterday!

cocobolo and Tiger myrtle riser with cocobolo veneers! I'm gonna build this one for a buddy of mine. It's a surprise! Hope he likes it. Im not gonna do a build along cause everything I learned I learned from you guys. But I will post a few pics as I go!

chackworth3 · December 30, 2014, 08:34:00 PM

Some good looking cocobolo

Bodork · December 31, 2014, 02:03:00 PM

I thought it was bacote but whatever it is, it's beautiful!

Bowjunkie · December 31, 2014, 03:28:00 PM

Yeah, I thought it was bocote also.

Roy from Pa · December 31, 2014, 03:58:00 PM

I'd be buying me ah new band saw before I tackled that purty wood.

drewsbow · December 31, 2014, 05:44:00 PM

nice

Crittergetter · December 31, 2014, 06:18:00 PM

It's actually darker than it looks here. I've got an overhead light right above it. Maybe that's why. Roy, I already got the riser pieces cut down so I'm pretty sure I can get by without it the rest of the way. I can grind down ther riser and limb profile on my big sander if I have to. But just in case I have been throwing a lot of sweet talk at my baby!! Lol.

bigbob2 · January 01, 2015, 03:23:00 AM

That is some seriously nice timber there!

Zradix · January 02, 2015, 03:50:00 PM

It's pretty stuff.

REALLY PRETTY for cocobolo.

Looks just like bocote to me...and I am a big fan of bocote.
...funny what lighting will do

Crittergetter · January 02, 2015, 09:19:00 PM

Got my lams all skived and glued together this afternoon. But I did make a rookie mistake! Had my board clamped to my grinding table,

guess I didn't have it all the way to the belt and startd grinding the first joint on a set of parellels. Apparently I didn't have a good grip on them either!

I couldn't have lined that shot up any better if I tried!! Thank God they didn't break. Just had to touch up the ends a little!! Lesson learned!

fujimo · January 02, 2015, 09:53:00 PM

better buy a lotto ticket!

mikkekeswick · January 03, 2015, 02:40:00 AM

No buy ten! You'll be rich!

Roy from Pa · January 03, 2015, 06:28:00 AM

You guys from east Texas..
LOL

jsweka · January 03, 2015, 09:13:00 AM

Sorry, but that's pretty funny.
Glad you didn't ruin any materials.

Crittergetter · January 03, 2015, 10:47:00 AM

It was pretty funny, after I stood there and looked around trying to figure out what just happened!

Roy from Pa · January 03, 2015, 11:20:00 AM

Ah heck it's only a glass bow...

Ranger44 · January 03, 2015, 12:34:00 PM

Very pretty wood.

Does that qualify as a "lam Robinhood?"

wood carver 2 · January 03, 2015, 03:06:00 PM

Good shooting though...

Dave.

Wagstaff · January 04, 2015, 12:51:00 PM

That had to be an interesting moment... You got lucky all around.!

rockkiller · January 04, 2015, 01:39:00 PM

Real nice group