2019 what did ya do today....

Flem · March 30, 2019, 11:13:39 AM

I like that Canary wood.

kennym · March 30, 2019, 11:24:32 AM

This one for the boss then?

skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 11:26:42 AM

That's the plan. I don't expect her to ever really shoot but she expressed an interest so I will feed that as much as I can.

Roy from Pa · March 30, 2019, 01:11:11 PM

Lonnie, she may surprise you.

But ya gotta make it fun.

Print out a picture of yourself and let her shoot at that..

Hell, send me one too. >>>----------->

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skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 01:57:36 PM

Ah that just hurts Roy, can't I even get concentric circles on my dot?

skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 02:01:24 PM

It's been a fairly productive day. I got the bow out of the form, shaped, tillered, tip overlays on and rough shaped and now I have the handle overlay glued and back in the oven.

Which brings the next question; I dropped the temp in the oven from 165° (where I baked the bow) to 150°, is that enough or should I lower it more?

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Buemaker · March 30, 2019, 02:15:18 PM

Looking good Skeater, is that small Jet sander accurate side to side?

skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 02:21:50 PM

It's a couple or three thousand off. It used to be closer but I guess it moved a bit. But that is from one side to the far opposite. For lams, even side by side, it's pretty accurate.

kennym · March 30, 2019, 04:19:47 PM

Even if she don't shoot it much , chicks dig men who make weaponry ...

skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 05:17:49 PM

Quote from: kennym on March 30, 2019, 04:19:47 PM
Even if she don't shoot it much , chicks dig men who make weaponry ...

I wish I would have known that when I was single. I have guns, knives, hawks, axe's, bows, sticks, rocks....

Crooked Stic · March 30, 2019, 07:00:24 PM

Lonnie about 80-90 degrees overnite will cure the overlays.

Bvas · March 30, 2019, 08:04:09 PM

Looks good Skeater.
Why'd ya have to cut it short?

skeaterbait · March 30, 2019, 08:29:56 PM

Not sure when but the lams for the belly shifted about an inch or so, or I simply placed them wrong. I was worried that it might affect the super lam but it tillered ok.

skeaterbait · March 31, 2019, 02:03:55 PM

I am completely sold on the super lam now. I love what it did to the profile, both braced and drawn. The bow came 1 pound over target at 36#@28 and it shoots great and is throwing an untuned 392 grain arrow at 158fps.

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skeaterbait · March 31, 2019, 02:06:04 PM

Looks like I could tweak that bottom limb for just slightly more bend overall.

Roy from Pa · March 31, 2019, 02:30:23 PM

Nice, Lonnie..

ztontonz · March 31, 2019, 03:16:44 PM

Last night I finally had everything ready to spray finish on the bow. Got 2 coats on it. Today after sanding it with 1000 grit I sprayed 2 more coats
I like it

goobersan · March 31, 2019, 03:58:08 PM

JWheel · March 31, 2019, 04:22:27 PM

Hey Skeater nice bow! I'm getting ready to glue up a bow and going to try the power lam thing. If you don't mind divulging...what was the butt thickness and taper on your PL?

skeaterbait · March 31, 2019, 04:33:12 PM

I used a super lam sled I got from Kenny. He provided instructions on it and I promptly ignored them.

Not that his instructions aren't correct, I just started with my lam too thin so I stopped grinding before it was completely tapered end to end. So what I ended up with was part of the lam was parallel. From the butt (.079") it was parallel for about 12" or so, then it has a .001" taper. Then as it got back to the tip wedge I had about 4"-5" of parallel there as well.

Bear in mind that with the 12" on the butt end I cut some off because my tip wedge was about where I wanted it. This gave me about 8" of butt end parallel that went on the form, which happened to be right at the end of my riser so it worked out ok.

Next time I will start with a thicker lam to grind.

Yeah, I know, way more story than you asked for.