Cut lams for the first one this afternoon,think it'll be purty!Red cedar belly,red elm core,curly hickory back,think it'll work?
Maybe cherry for the riser.........

   

Now just gotta finish the form up and glue er up.        

Heres the start of the lams for #2,zebra and osage.....

   
   

Cool! Keep us posted Kenny. Now that I'm back from TX, maybe time to play with the cedar lams I got from you.

Dont you need a field tester for these bows??    
I think that that first set will be sharp! I wll be checking back...

Hey Shaun,wondered where you'd been! Any good stories?? C'mon.....

Jamie,I lucked out on that piece of cedar,it came out of the board just like I hoped it would!!The curly hickory has really good grain too,but you cant see it in that pic.

can't wait to see the finished product!

Kenny thats going to be a great combo of wood!!! best of luck..bud! Marco

Gonna be nice Kenny! I'll be waiting.

Good afternoon Kenny, my friend and I are going to be building a couple of longbows and recurves. He couldn't find the laminations he wanted so I sent him your information. A quick question on the laminations, how do you make your laminations and what tolerance are you looking. Is there a jig or a special tool or a particular way of doing this, any information would be appreciated, thanks Chuck.

Heres what I'm using now Chuck! Sent ya a PM....

That looks serious...

Glued up Sun afternoon,took it off the form tonite,had some HORRENDOUS lam slippage when I glued up. Went from 1 1/2" wide to gonna be about 1"-1 1/16" wide at the riser! THIS STINKS, the rest of the bow,includin the tiller came out flawless! Oh well ,thats part of it. Still gonna salvage it if I can,heres a few pics of the purty narrow limbs!!


The curly hickory(sun was goin down pics don't do justice!)See the slippage on the bottom of limb 2nd pic!!    






The cedar ,didn't know just how it'd look.......

1st limb


2nd limb


More updates as the bow comes along,Oh yeah 64" d/r right now 40 @ 28"

WOW Kenny, you got a new machine since I visited just a while back. Looks like a great set up for lam grinding. Dust collection, shop insulation... real up town set up.

Love the look of those cedar limbs with the heart and sap wood color changes.

Shaun,I almost threw that cedar board in the junkpile,sure glad I didn't!!

That cedar looks great.

John

Cedar looks awesome. I like the bows already!<><

Kenny thats a sweet looking set of limbs. Hate it when they slip like that. Still should make a nice bow though.

Gotta keep this one up .<><  

Man oh man I really like the looks of that cedar!

Very nice!

Kenny , keep it comming buddy! Mark#78