2018 What did you do today?

[Forwardhandle]

I will try this size  

[kennym]

Lookin good Ritchie!

I glued up a bocote riser /veneer with red elm core blank to go to the UK

And glued another riser for my swap bow. My sander ate the first one.

Weeellll , I told it to by mistake.    

Oh well , I like this one better anyway,changed some stuff.

Looking Good Yellow...  You'll be is B'ness soon...

 Damn Kenny...   There is probably a 1,000 different ways to F-up a bow...

[wood carver 2]

1001 if you shoot in your basement.      
Dave.

[skeaterbait]

I finally got tired of fighting with the drum sander I had and ordered a new one. I picked it up last night so I spent the day making lams and veneers for my swap bow.

Thanks Kenny for all the advice and letting me loiter in your shop watching you make my last set of lams. Your sleds worked great and I picked up a few good tips and shortcuts from you that saved me a bunch of time. Some of them you probably don't even know you shared with me.

[Forwardhandle]

Thanks Shredd  a little here and there time wise is all I have so no hurry but would like to have it built over the next couple of months with all the help I get here !

[Forwardhandle]

Beautifull looking lams there skeat  !

[fujimo]

yup  Roy, 174 fps with a 535gr arrow!!
 

[kennym]

Good deal Lonnie! Glad to help!

Just ordered some Spectraply . So will be offering riser blocks and angle cut veneers soon.

I think I gave away my jig for angle cut but can build one in a few minutes when the Spectra arrives.

[monterey]

Yellowwood, looks like you got it figured out.

The bow that I wanted to come in at 55 came in at 72    

New target is 60#.  I'm going to narrow it down and it should be ok once the limbs are finished.  

[scrub-buster]

Today I finally got around to cleaning up the hind leg sinew I got from deer season.

[Roy from Pa]

Nice Clint.

[kennym]

Welll, I've had some interest in forward handle longbows, soooo I dragged the danged form out, redesigned the whole bow and will lay one up on it. Heck, maybe it will be my swap bow.......

[skeaterbait]

I hope to make a forward handle someday, I really like the look of them.

[Bvas]

Still deciding some small details before glue up. So decided to work on my overlay.

[Roy from Pa]

Nice Brad. Those the walnut lams?

[fujimo]

now that is something i am looking forward to kenny!

nice overlay mate

[fujimo]

man Clint, you process sinew like you split osage.
i will never forget that post where you had , what was it 160 odd staves all processed- i forget the no exactly- but it was a pile-o-them

[scrub-buster]

Originally posted by fujimo:
man Clint, you process sinew like you split osage.
i will never forget that post where you had , what was it 160 odd staves all processed- i forget the no exactly- but it was a pile-o-them

That was when I got 108 staves from one osage tree.  I usually do things in big batches.  Last time I worked on arrows I made over 30.

[monterey]

I discovered and made mistakes.  

Discovered that my 60# RD is way over weight due to a mistake in stack calculation.  

Realized that I cut the shelf wrong on an ASL and made it into a lefty.

         :(