2021 what did you do today?

[Mad Max]

That's awesome, Mark..

We use to make a lot of hard wood flooring down here in the south, they would stack it like that, but 4 or 5 high.
For a year I guess, then it was kiln dried and milled into tongue and groove floor.
Now days it's just the top layer on a filler. Many hard wood flooring yards went under

[mmattockx]

Anybody ever use apple wood in a bow riser?

Nope, but my experience mirrors the others here about fruit woods making decent self bows and generally being very dense and hard. I had some pieces off an apple tree from a backyard and made chisel handles out of them. The 3 on the right are apple, the other 3 are cherry:



If there is some nice grain in the wood you harvested I would use it for risers with no worries at all. I will also echo the comments about fruit wood checking easily.


Mark

[Longcruise]

Plum is another good one.  I had one that winter killed and salvages some knife scales out of the larger trunk.  It wasn't big enough for riser or lams.  Has real pretty color and this one also had some curl.

[Bowjunkie]

Nice chisel handles Mark.

[Crooked Stic]

Fixin to put this under clear glass.

[Mad Max]

Is that vertical boo stic?
Always wanted to see it under clear glass

[Bowjunkie]

I'm guessing he was talking about the burl??

[Roy from Pa]

Mike that will look sharp as heck.

[Mad Max]

Mike that will look sharp as heck.

The burl or the boo? 

[Roy from Pa]

Dah boo....

[Crooked Stic]

Max ya got to stain the boo or ya could leave it plain Jane
Never give this a lot of thought before. But rainy a damp here. And everything is 12 percent. MC glue or not.
Am thinking put it in the hot box for awhile first.

[Mad Max]

Yep stic
It's been raining here 3 day and going to get at least 3 more days 

[4 point]

Send some rain up north, we'll take all we can get!

[Crooked Stic]

Went ahead and heated everything up and glued. Gotwalnut burl degassing right now

[Crooked Stic]

Somewhere we was talking about fragile veneers. This burl I got is .022 and wiggly like a wet noodle.
Seemed pretty tuff tho. Anyhow I buttered it up on top of a thicker lam and used that lam to flip it on to the buttered glass.Just make sure it don't slip around when you glue the other side and smear the glue in one direction.

[4 point]

Working on moving over to the dark side with a little coaching from Roy. Where is the best place to position the nodes? If I put one in the center I end up with nodes about 6 inches from the tips. If I center between nodes they end up on my fades.

[Pat B]

Nodes 6" from the tips wouldn't be bad.

[4 point]

Thanks Pat, I was thinking that would be better than on the fades.

[Roy from Pa]

I try for equal spacing of the nodes in the limbs, so I'll move the center node up or down or the spacing between 2 nodes up or down within the riser area.

If a node falls within 2 inches of the tip, it gets cut off anyway when I cut the back of the boo off to put my tip overlays on.

Most times I'll have an equal number of nodes on each limb. All depends on the piece of boo and it's node spacing. If you look at your boo, the nodes on one end will be a little closer together than the other  end, not much though, maybe an inch different.

Most times I center the nodes an equal distance from the fades and see how things go, it's always different..

[OldRawhide42]

Crooked stic  that is a good tip . Thanks