2019 Bow Resolutions

[Forwardhandle]

I was thinking with the new year coming up it would be interesting to see what  thoughts for bows being made by every body into the new year is ?  mine are to perfect my stack thicknesses for carbon limbs & finish up a form design for making concave ACS type limbs with a working prototype ,also finish the composite horn bow I have been working on & off for the last 2 years ? Of course it depends on my work schedule , I would like to hear every body else's  ?

[monterey]

I'm going to build a form for a kid bow and might scale it up to make parent/kid bows.

[Possum Head]

Funny you should ask as thoughts been spinnin on hickory harvest and drying. I can recognize hickory all day long with the leaves on them but naked well I’ll have to try and without assurance I’ll wait til spring puts leaves on. I would like to get a jump on drying though. Will a heat box accelerate drying or is splitting and slow drying better? Next year will bring about my first hickory selfbow and I’m excited about it!


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[Forwardhandle]

A little off topic but we never go off topic around here...lol ,but if it was me I would wait tell well into late spring when sap wood is running and the bark peels off like card board ,I only ever did one winter hickory and it was a bear to get to the back with out damage , hickory can be ruffed into a bow and brought inside and keeped at 50% RH for a couple months usually good to make a bow like most white woods it has been my exsperience !

[Possum Head]

Thanks that rules out my identification issue and will help with a better bow and still allows time for my 2019 endeavor


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[skeaterbait]

I would just be happy to find enough time to expand my building experience. It seems there is always something getting in the way.

[kennym]

Maybe a re..re.. re.. ah never mind

[Crooked Stic]

Kenny bout said it for me to except i have a --and ah Hmm 

[wood carver 2]

I don’t normally make resolutions, however, in the new year I plan to work less overtime and get back to building bows.
I have a bamboo backed black palm longbow halfway tillered and a stack of risers cut out and waiting to become bows. Two of those risers are for recurves. I have yet to build a successful recurve.
Dave.

[wood carver 2]

I didn’t see the posts before mine. I know the feeling. My last recurve was almost ready to shoot when it went off like a gunshot. I still haven’t found all the pieces.
Dave.

[Dannon]

Definitely a takedown longbow and hopefully get another form made for a recurve. Of course one of KennyM ‘s forward handle bows may be in the near future!

[Flem]

 Looking forward to having some time in the new year play around with bow building. I've been collecting materials to experiment with shear planes/damping and uncoupling membranes.

[Bvas]

I wanna try and squeeze another 5fps out of my 54” d/r without additional stacking. Also want to make myself a pair of evil step sister bows. Look alikes, but one 54” and one 60-60+”.
Lastly want to get some more Osage(and other bow wood)cut and drying. Got two farms to cut as much as I want. I have one tree in particular that is nice and straight that I want to cut for staves. Maybe someday a selfbow!!

[DanishArcher]

My New year's resolution is about learning and making my first glass bow. I've build some wood bows and will continue that, but what I really want to build is a HH style, a r/d and a recurve that shoots well and have the same materials used to build them. Then from there I'll see Which type I'll make a bunch of first. Another goal for me is to make 2 identical bows for my wedding in September. One for me and one for my wife!

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[monterey]

Looking forward to having some time in the new year play around with bow building. I've been collecting materials to experiment with shear planes/damping and uncoupling membranes.

I'm looking forward to learning what that means!

I might venture into a one piece recurve.  I have a vintage bow coming soon that I want to recreate.

[Shredd]

Finish a couple of these up and start selling the darn things...

[Roy from Pa]

I made a form for a hybrid longbow.

Bought all the materials from Kenny and the form plans.

Spent weeks getting things lined up, tapered, etc.

Glued it all up and applied the air to the fire hose and put everything in the heat box and turned on the four 200 watt light bulbs.

Somehow, I forgot about it and the next day I see smoke billowing from the bow shop roof.

I go running out to the shop and the cans of denatured alcohol, acetone, and lacquer thinner started exploding.

The entire roof of the shop blew off..

Then I woke up, sat up in bed, and I was soaked with sweat and shaking like a leaf.

I looked out the window and the bow shop was fine.

Whew.......... Thanks God..

I'll never make another glass bow as long as I live!

[Forwardhandle]

I quit smoking that stuff back in the 70s you should to 

[Shredd]

  OMG Roy....   Classic...  LMAO....

[Crooked Stic]

Hmm me thinks snorting too much yellow sawdust