Making takedown wedges?

Appalachian Hillbilly · January 04, 2022, 10:52:52 AM

Anyone care to tell how they make their takedown wedges? Do you make a jig to grind them or how do you do it?
Getting ready to try my hand at making limbs.

kennym · January 04, 2022, 12:30:45 PM

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For wedges with a flat for bolt I grind to thickness and width, then rough saw the taper . This way the bottom of wedge is already sanded.

For my td bows there is no flat for bolt so rough cut wedge and flip over when you get one side cleaned up on sander

The bottom board is longer because my pressure rollers let up on a short board about the time the wedge is halfway thru and makes a dip in it if bottom is short like top.

mmattockx · January 04, 2022, 01:38:10 PM

Kenny,

How do you hold the shim in place?

Mark

Appalachian Hillbilly · January 04, 2022, 01:57:17 PM

Not sure how Kenny does it but his sled drawing is similar to what I have in mind. Either double sided tape, bit I am afraid that would be to sticky for the very thin ends, or making the wedge long enough to screw to the sled and then trim off when done?
Ken

kennym · January 04, 2022, 02:11:02 PM

The shim can be longer and a small screw to hold it. My sled is old but works great so I haven't done that. After trial and error to get the slope I want, I just used CA on the shim

The wedge stop I just put on with CA

Crooked Stic · January 06, 2022, 10:10:42 PM

I had to get creative on these but jigs for the profiler work well

Mad Max · January 07, 2022, 04:39:39 PM

Stic
That seems like it would be a lot of waste doing it that way.
I guess you have tried laminating 3/5 thin strips?

Buemaker · January 07, 2022, 05:45:21 PM

This is how I make them, the wedges do not have a straight taper.

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Buemaker · January 07, 2022, 05:46:11 PM

Sorry old pics come upside down.

Mad Max · January 07, 2022, 05:51:03 PM

Looks good to me

Crooked Stic · January 07, 2022, 10:29:57 PM

Yeah Max I got a form for laminating. But this was before that.

Mad Max · January 08, 2022, 09:01:45 AM

Roy from Pa · January 08, 2022, 10:19:17 AM

Picture looks ok to me, Bue.

I hear ole KennyM is an expert on wedges..

Just sayen..

kennym · January 08, 2022, 10:41:09 AM

Don't make me come out there boy...

Roy from Pa · January 08, 2022, 10:43:46 AM

I hain't skeered pops:)

Shredd · January 08, 2022, 10:50:02 AM

I true up a block of wood on my disc sander and then clamp it down next to the disc 1/8" to nothing over 2" distance... Then I take a .140 to .125 lam and shove it between the sander and the block until i get an edge down to nothing on the lam... Round off the transition a hair where the wedge meets the parallel and you are good to go...

Crooked Stic · January 08, 2022, 08:48:03 PM

Ya meant wedgies right Roy
Here is my laminating form for the curved wedges. It saves some material over the long run. But the pieces need to be thin enough that ther is no spring back out of the form Dont ask.

mmattockx · January 08, 2022, 09:14:40 PM

Quote from: Crooked Stic on January 08, 2022, 08:48:03 PM
But the pieces need to be thin enough that ther is no spring back out of the form

And how thin is that? How many layers do you typically glue together?

Mark

Mad Max · January 08, 2022, 11:40:59 PM

Nice stic

Appalachian Hillbilly · January 09, 2022, 07:56:40 AM

Well, I have to make wedges now...I dropped one of the wedges I got from Binghams and it landed right on the point!

Making takedown wedges?

Shredd