What did you do today, 2015....

[Robertfishes]

Roy you should make some Tarzan shorty shorts with that tanned deer hide..
Halfseminole sounds like you are making good progress. I used a Walker for a few months after breaking my back 22 years ago.

[LittleBen]

Haha that's funny Dave. I was wondering what you were doing in a reasonably sized pickup truck.

Kept looking at the pic saying .... That's not a suburban !?


Sawed up some Osage today into lams. Need to grind me still .... 1/4hp bandsaw is a sick joke. Takes 6min to saw one lam 1.5" wide and 36" long from Osage .... I'm dreading cutting any Ipe.

[Krasus]

Got the mosaic glued up and cut.





Cambodian blood wood
Rock maple
African ebony

[halfseminole]

Made it home.  PT and OT come out to see me today, first question will be drawing a bow.

[kennym]

Glad you're back home Ed, continue to heal brother!

[monterey]

Keep at it Ed!  Looking forward to a pic of you drawing back to about three feet!

[Trux Turning]

Nice mosaic Cody!!

[halfseminole]

Tried to draw a bow for the first time since the stroke.  Got about 35-40 pound and arm collapsed.
Draw length should remain the same, just weight went down.  Makes the manchubows.com bow perfect for me now.

[wood carver 2]

Keep at it Ed! You've got more heart than many people I've met. You'll get there yet.
Dave.

[Krasus]

Finally got around to glueing up the new riser.
Still need to cut and lay the curved section of the mosaic

[bigbob2]

looking good !

[monterey]

Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
You hunt and fish like a girl... LOL

Hah!  At least I stuck with my 31" arrows.  He used some kind of 3.5" thing!  

Still have some work to do with that kid.  He always outfishes me!  Has something to do with being willing to stand in the rain.

We had a great time down there, despites some major rain.  Good camp, good food and good company.  Lots of turkeys too.

[beachbowhunter]

Originally posted by Krasus:
Finally got around to glueing up the new riser.
Still need to cut and lay the curved section of the mosaic
 

How do you guys so mosaic stips?  I glued up a 16" long set of blocks and sliced off some strips. They broke apart when I flexed them just a tiny bit. How do you make it work with the smaller pieces    :confused:

[halfseminole]

Fletched a sirdan arrow to play with when I get a bit stronger.  Also, got a good chapter on the new novel, maybe have one or two more in me.

[Krasus]

When I do my curved mosaic i use a heat gun  and warm the wood up then mist with a bit of water as I very slowly clamp my curved sections in. Pm me if you want beachbow  and we can chat

[Krasus]

Got my new beaver balls and judo tips today!  Stumping here I come!

[kennym]

Just ground 4 sets of bocote lams for St. Judes.

[canopyboy]

I woke up today feeling like death. I think maybe I got a little sun sick this weekend with this whole crop-fit exercise thing my wife has me working on. You know, rototilling, weedeating, planting, mowing, fixing, etc. Anyhow, I felt better early afternoon so I went to my shop where things are shady. My trip to Grizzly a couple weeks ago was still sitting there waiting for assembly. So, I cleaned up my shop and got to work.

The dust collector wouldn't fit where the old one did, but man, does it pull some CFMs compared to the old one! I think I still want to re-think my setup with perhaps a rigid duct system (or at least partial.)

 

The sander comes with a stupid little base, but I needed it to roll and I figured a place to store sandpaper wouldn't hurt. So I made a base with locking casters for it. Turned it on, ran a board through a couple times with my daughter and the paper came loose on the drum. I know Grizzly says to tape the one end down (and that's how it came from the factory,) but that seems stupid. Growing up in the cabinet shop we use large hose clamps for the end opposite the spring tensioner. I'm also not sure about their whole felt on the second roller idea. I think I'm just going to pull that off while I'm at it and adjust the drum heights to suit.

But, don't get me wrong. It's frickin' awesome. I can't wait to build my first bow with home grown, home harvested, and home ground lams!

 

And just to make sure the day was complete, I finally pulled the last bow out of the form that I had glued up at the beginning of April. Still had 20psi on the hose. Man, life gets away from you sometimes...

[fujimo]

looking awesome David.    
what wood do you grow and harvest?

[Buemaker]

Looks great.    Bue--.