2021 what did you do today?

[Buemaker]

Kingwood is looking good and an riser with Kingwood with an Jatoba I beam

[Roy from Pa]

Kenny and Bue, those are sweet.

The big auction site has horn.

[kennym]

Morado scales , usually none that light. Walnut veneers hand picked to go with the riser

[Buemaker]

Looking good Kenny.

[kennym]

That kingwood is gonna be killer ,  Bue.

[Crooked Stic]

Lovin Kingwood

[Mad Max]

Looks like it's going to be 2 nice risers

[mmattockx]

Continued work on my lam bow. Looks like I have the clamping sorted to where I can close the gaps at the ends of the riser and extra lam I added. Figured I would post a few semi-artistic shots showing the zero thickness tapering on the various pieces.

The riser. Shaped with a flush trim bit in my router, then feathered by hand:




The extra lam, feathered with my thickness sander:




My tip wedges, feathered from 0.096" to zero over 4" on my thickness sander:




Mark

[Mad Max]

Very Very careful with them now so you don't break it off

[Crooked Stic]

Yes sir if ya drop one of them (dont ask ) it really tends to chap your backside.

[Flem]

Those are cool pictures, makes the wood look really fibrous.

[flntknp17]

I glued up this tri-lam boo/cherry/red oak with osage accents on Christmas Day and have been working on it slowly since.  Shoots very well so far.

[Buemaker]

Looks very good.

[mmattockx]

I glued up this tri-lam boo/cherry/red oak with osage accents on Christmas Day and have been working on it slowly since.  Shoots very well so far.

Looking good, you do a first class job on the lam bows. Dimensions/specs? That's going to look great as the osage darkens over time.


Mark

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Shredd]

  Good Stuff...

[Crooked Stic]

Cool looking tips.

[mmattockx]

No posts in 2 days! Is everyone hungover or what?


I did a full clamp up dry fit today. Everything looks good now and I should be gluing it up in the next couple days.




I also drilled a couple dowel holes in my riser and lams to align everything.






So why does experience hurt so much?

Use 2 dowels everybody said. It aligns everything automatically they said. You know what else it also does? It puts a dowel right in the middle of my sight window. 

I didn't catch it until after the holes were drilled, of course. It won't compromise the riser structure since the back lam is one piece and will provide the tension strength there, but it is going to show and look ugly. The next bow gets one stinking dowel. 


Mark

[kennym]

Butcher shop here today

[Mad Max]

Put  a  face on it and keep going