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Title: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 29, 2019, 07:38:35 AM

Had one that I roughed out several years ago. It had some bad gouges and a section of violated ring. Got it cleaned up and floor tillered yesterday.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Flem on June 29, 2019, 08:17:23 AM

Thats one snaky looking stave!
I really like your drawknife, never seen one with articulating handles.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on June 29, 2019, 11:22:25 AM

This should be fun, Jim.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Wolftrail on June 29, 2019, 12:30:41 PM

Its not overly Snaky.  Will be watching ya gonna give 'er some cool bends. 

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 29, 2019, 01:29:06 PM

Probably curve the tips.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Roy from Pa on June 29, 2019, 02:29:32 PM

Nice, get er done, Jim..

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on June 30, 2019, 07:41:52 PM

I heated the handle up and clamped the bow to the bench top in order to get the tips lined up. The string ran
long one edge of the handle now it lays right down the center.

Here it is after some work today. I'm waiting on a digital bow scale so I can continue. I have a game scale but I'm not too confident in it's accuracy.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Eric Krewson on July 02, 2019, 09:22:35 AM

Watch out for that hingy place about a foot from the fade in the left limb, get out your gizmo and work either side of it.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 02, 2019, 09:54:25 AM

Yeah I saw that. It is stiff now and needs some reduction. The handle is also a little thin front to back so I scabbed on another piece of Osage there.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 04, 2019, 11:12:06 AM

Turned out nice.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Roy from Pa on July 04, 2019, 11:41:14 AM

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on July 04, 2019, 11:52:24 AM

Looking good so far, Jim.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 17, 2019, 08:30:29 AM

cCaused a crack on the corner on one limb tip while recurving it. It is on the belly side. I heated it, put some super glue inside and clamped it. I added a thin veneer over it and one to match on the other limb. Hope it survives. :pray:

I should have rounded that corner off some before hand. Lesson learned.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Roy from Pa on July 17, 2019, 09:54:53 AM

Yup, always round off all edges, before trying to bend the bow.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: OkKeith on July 17, 2019, 04:36:46 PM

I think I re-learn this about every fifth bow or so...

OkKeith

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 19, 2019, 02:54:29 PM

I think she is going to make it. I overlayed the crack with a thin veneer after super gluing and clamping it. I worked on the tiller some more today until it got too hot. A couple stiff spots still to work on. It is about 40 lbs @ 18 right now.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: monterey on July 19, 2019, 10:07:36 PM

I like the tree mounted tillering "wall".  Been trying to figure where to put one and there it is!

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on July 19, 2019, 10:54:12 PM

Get the outer 2/3 of the left limb bending more but also get the right limb caught up with the left. Try not to pull to full draw until the tiller is corrected...and be sure to exercise plenty as you remove wood.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 20, 2019, 02:32:05 PM

Well I strung it, put it on the tree and pulled about 10lbs of draw and... CRACK! Better on the tree than at full draw later.

This is the left limb from the above pics. I'm guessing grain run off and probably that section was bending too much. This stave was sawn so the grain was probably violated on the edge.Now its a Titebond III glue experiment. LOL! Oh well, I just grabbed another stave and chased a ring to just past the handle section.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on July 20, 2019, 07:31:06 PM

That's a pretty severe grain runoff for a stave. I can understand a board having a runoff like that. Was the stave split out or sawn?

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 20, 2019, 09:44:13 PM

Split originally then saw... before i knew better.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Flem on July 20, 2019, 10:59:06 PM

Jim, I hope you burn that thing before you are tempted to mess with it more :campfire:

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 21, 2019, 07:59:45 AM

Yeah, I want to see how the titebond holds when i put it on the tree again. After it breaks I will salvage  some of it for file an knife handles. Very strange that it broke. Should have radiused the corners more I guess.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on July 21, 2019, 11:46:15 AM

Make an atlatl handle with the good limb.

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: razorsharptokill on July 21, 2019, 12:48:02 PM

Great idea!

Title: Re: A bow is born
Post by: Pat B on July 21, 2019, 02:16:27 PM

Waste not, want not.  :thumbsup: