What did you do today?

[red hill]

Dan, I thought yew was a Pacific Nothwest tree? Does it grow else where?
Pretty grain.
Stan

[fujimo]

watch when you have off center hearts like that- careful how you split it. you need to identify what caused it- i cant see from the pics though.
colour looks a bit different!!

[Diamondback59]

that yew is common  yard yew all over  not the same stuff as pacfic nw yew  shaun webb wrote a artical aboutit in the fall trade world mag  it ll maKE A BOW BUT I DUNNO HOW GOOD NEVER TRIED IT  MYSELF  WE NEED TO GET SHAUN ON HERE HAVE HIM CHIME IN  KENNY MAN THAT CURLEY MAPLE IS REALLY PRETTY STUFF  BROCK

[Dan Landis]

Red, as Brock said, this was an ornamental Yew that was left grow wild, not the good stuff.  I just saw it where I was working this week and decided to give it a try.....Dan

[Dan Landis]

Fujimo, this was a limb growing from the main trunk.  The top of the limb would be where the heart is closest to the surface.  If I attempt to make a bow from this, should the top of the limb be the back of the bow?

[dmikeyj]

Dan, that is how I'd go at it, the top should be nice and strong.  Look at how many rings are in such a small area, been under tension all its life, too...

[Eric Krewson]

I am trying to recover a BBO that took an abnormal amount of set in the bottom limb after 10 years of constant use.

Going to give the bow limbs a good toasting today.

[DVSHUNTER]

Eric, are you toasting, grinding off and reglue new boo or adding a belly laminiation?

[psychmonky]

Already this morning I have discovered that you can buy a 40lb bag of urac hardener.....not sure why a person would need that much, especially since they don't sell a compatible quantity of glue, but good to know I have options. Lol

[Eric Krewson]

David, I ended up reflexing the bow in one of my milder forms, heating the offending limb to just short of scorching hot and letting it cool off in the form.

Out of the form it had 3" of reflex, after about 30 shots it appears to have settled in to about 1/2" of reflex, much better than 3" of deflex.

I suspect the limb will lighten up a bit more over time, it is a little stiff now.

I used urac in my glue-up, it has been my experience that it urac handles heat really well so I didn't feel the need to add new bamboo or lams.

[Keenan]

Dan, The top side is definitly what you want. Nice tight rings and perfect sapwood ratio. The heart wood always lays closer to the top sides of the limbs and everything is grown under tension.

[DVSHUNTER]

Thanks Eric.  Thats some good info to know.

[L82HUNT]

Wife was a work so this seemed easier then the hotbox for a riser.  


Osage with 2 stripes of black glass and 1 of 1/16 white phonlic.

And glued some bocote up

[wood carver 2]

Just don't let any epoxy drip into that oven or you're a dead man!    
Dave.

[DVSHUNTER]

Originally posted by wood carver 2:
Just don't let any epoxy drip into that oven or you're a dead man!    
Dave.

As far as she knows, that is what the oven is for.  

[wood carver 2]

Where do I find a girl like that?    
Dave.

[soopernate]

I hung out with two of my best freinds drinking bud light platinum and casting flies to huge brown and rainbow trout on the Bighorn River....and now I am opening up a bundle of bamboo for my trade bow.

[fujimo]

eeesh!!! life is sure tough down in Montana!!-
that you have to drink that gunk, i mean-
you might be better off drinking post spawn river water   :D

[Roy from Pa]

About time son:)

[psychmonky]

Did a dry run to make sure the HBI im gluing up is going to work. Looks beautiful. Now to make sure I have the hickory perfectly flat and then stick her together.