Bowyer's Box

[Dick in Seattle]

Day before yesterday I posted a link to a build-a-long for a real handy combination work bench/vise/toolbox for selfbow makers.   After it was finished I saw some potential improvements and I got some comments on it that pointed out some more.   So,  yesterday I made an improved Mark II version and added pictures with notes on the changes I made.    Some folks said they had bookmarked the page, so I wanted to give a heads up that there was now more material.

Here is the link

http://www.howardhillshooters.com/bowbox/bowbox.html


If the link doesn't work for you, just go to

 www.howardhilllongbowmen.com

and scroll down the main page to the link labelled:

"Making a Workbench/Vice/Toolbox for Bow Building"

Dick in Seattle

[shawn]

Nice little project. Thanks for sharing.

Shawn

[John Scifres]

Neat

[TexMex]

Cool!!

[W.Tim]

good info  

[Dick in Seattle]

A clarification...  As I'm sure anyone can tell, I'm really new to bow building, and my terminology is off at times.   It was pointed out to me that I referred to using this box on "staves" and that it wasn't sturdy enough in it's clamping capability for heavy work with a draw knife.   That is correct, it would not be up to that kind of work.

This is meant more for lam ups and board bows, than raw staves at the initial stages. I do know that John told me, very strongly, to avoid using draw knives or planes, to stick to scrapers. I was watching him use a scraper on an osage that was wavy, and he emphasized that the scraper followed the grain without cutting it.

I used my rig yesterday on my lam up of bamboo and vermilgo (very hard asian wood... like teak) and it was great, but I would agree, if I was really taking a split log stave down to the working size, this wouldn't be the answer... perfect for board bows and lam ups, though.

Dick in Seattle

[PA Bones]

Dick,
Thanks for posting this.  I have been wanting to build something to help hold selfbows when I work on them and this looks like what I need.
Thanks...
Bones