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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: eman614 on January 21, 2009, 09:49:00 PM

Title: kennym
Post by: eman614 on January 21, 2009, 09:49:00 PM

thats a pretty sweet website you got. i only looked at the one page when i asked about making the bow form. tonight i actually looked at the rest of the site. it was very nice. i got a question. what do you use to make your lams(parallel). and how do you make your tapers? not that i'm going to make my own i was just curious.
eric

Title: Re: kennym
Post by: kennym on January 21, 2009, 09:59:00 PM

I bought a grizzly bandsaw and open end belt sander,the saw is a 14" extreme series and the sander is here....

 http://www.grizzly.com/products/15-3-HP-Open-End-Wide-Belt-Sander/G0644

Both do a good job,oh I also bought a griz tablesaw for quick ripping chores and a good dust collection system(really important if you wanna breathe later on)

I made sleds for each taper rate from osage or red elm,and have a plexiglass parallel sled which I trued up with the sander with light passes so it didn't melt it into the belt.