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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #360 on: June 10, 2024, 06:14:58 PM »
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #361 on: June 14, 2024, 04:40:03 PM »
Today I got an all zircote bow strung up. Only shoot it once in the pouring rain. It shoots well so far. Although grip is uncomfortable as well as ugly.

Bow came out 2 lbs under goal weight and I'm ok with that since it was my first time milling my own lams.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #362 on: June 14, 2024, 09:40:56 PM »
Finished the daughter in law’s birthday bow-purpleheart/osage w angle cut charcoal spectraply veneers and finally got around to putting some finish on mine-bocote w purpleheart Ibeam and quilted maple overlay.
caught between:If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and can’t leave well enough alone.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #363 on: June 25, 2024, 05:38:51 PM »
Looking very nice.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #364 on: June 25, 2024, 05:44:11 PM »
Just finished my new bowshop with indoor firepit for firehardening bow bellies.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #365 on: June 25, 2024, 06:28:04 PM »
Bue, that is fantastic! A truly beautiful and inspiring workspace!  :clapper: Even if you are joking
around with us, the architecture remains impressive!  :thumbsup:

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #366 on: June 25, 2024, 06:46:19 PM »
One can always dream. It is from Leire in Denmark. A reconstruction of a large hall from Viking age, a fantastic build.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #367 on: June 25, 2024, 11:46:02 PM »
Beautiful building….  :clapper: :clapper:
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #368 on: June 26, 2024, 02:44:39 PM »
Ya had me there for a minute.   :biglaugh:
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #369 on: June 26, 2024, 09:59:14 PM »
I was like Damn - Kirk cleaned his Shop !!! Lol 😂
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #370 on: June 27, 2024, 09:35:59 AM »
Those carved columns are very fine!

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #371 on: June 27, 2024, 03:01:58 PM »
I was like Damn - Kirk cleaned his Shop !!! Lol 😂

 :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:    Actually i DID clean my shop Gary... But it dont look THAT good...
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #372 on: June 27, 2024, 03:17:03 PM »
Got ya Bud. I saw that Beautiful shop and know you have finish Carpentry skills.
I should do that to mine when i get it cleaned out sometime in my next lifetime. !!!
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #373 on: June 27, 2024, 05:14:49 PM »
A couple more pics. Hall is 60 meter long.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #374 on: June 27, 2024, 05:39:42 PM »
That is an outstanding
Craftsmanship right there!!
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #375 on: June 27, 2024, 09:11:28 PM »
The time alone in just those wood carvings represents a lot of hours of skilled labor. In modern days of cnc woodcarving machines, this type work is underappreciated, and rarely done by hand...
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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #376 on: June 27, 2024, 09:47:31 PM »
Ya beautiful work there. 👌

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #377 on: June 27, 2024, 11:35:54 PM »
And dig that boardwalk guys.

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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #378 on: July 01, 2024, 07:06:26 PM »
Well today I had to clean up a mess on a perfectly good bow. I have a combo of rosewood and curly maple on this baby I’m trying to get finished and decided to use a product specially designed for popping the grain figure in curly maple.

So after all the finish sanding was done I wiped down the whole bow with this stuff so I would get the overlays and limb edges all evenly colored…..At first it didn’t seem to do anything….So I wiped on a second coat, and went in the house to get me another cup of Joe….. By the  time I got back to the shop… the whole bow had turned black. :o :o :o   You could barely see the grain in the rosewood and the maple was seriously dark…… I just about puked…. What happened? :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

So I spent two hours carefully sanding the stuff off after it had dried completely and decided to go a different route. So I got out some golden oak stain I’d used in th3 past to darken up the maple a bit, and didn’t effect the rosewood at all…. Great! Looked beautiful! I decided to let the stain dry over night before clear coating, which is always a good thing to do.

So this morning I head back to the shop thinking I’d be spraying first thing only to find that the stain didn’t dry completely…… :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

Now I’m getting a little bent out of shape here… this dad burn bow refuses to give me a break and relent to getting finished….. So I’m thinking about what is the best step going forward here. I know better than introducing a solvent into the mix, but I’ve got extra stain that is like a sticky film in spots all over the whole bow.

  So I ended up getting a bunch of clean rags of different consistency first. Some sweat shirt material, some old long John material, and some other stuff very soft like micro fiber cloth. I approached this mess like sanding and started with coarse cloth to remove the excess, then slowly polished it out with finer cloth by hand. I’m talking two hours of hand rubbed polishing to get it looking good and finally dry to to the touch again…..

At this point I’m spooked about spraying clear coating at all, and half tempted to just let it dry another day and use furniture polish on it….but….those type finishes just don’t hold up well over time without a lot of maintenance. So I decided to just hang it in the spray booth leave the lights on and let it cure at 90 degrees over night, and spray it tomorrow…..

You think I would learn to leave staining  alone when it comes to these bows. I swore years ago I’d never stain another riser after a similar nightmare occurred by trying to touch sand between coats of clear and went through the stain… That was a whole different nightmare there I won’t go into…


Moral of story here guys…..If you ever feel the urge to stain your riser and limb edges, immediately leave the building, go fishing, or shoot your bow until you get that stupid notion out of your head.  Save yourself some grief….   Kirk


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Re: 2024 What did you do today
« Reply #379 on: July 01, 2024, 10:01:57 PM »
Yes sir I just had a guy wanting maple stained. I said no it wont work good as stabilizing with dye. I had to stain a drop and send him pics. Seems one can't not enough and before you know it it's just a mess.  :dunno:
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