Some Assembly Required

[aeronut]

#6838

After the early demise of Curly, my Curly Hickory longbow, I start on a replacement. I am headed to Texas next month for a hog hunt and hope to get this one done and tuned in for the trip.

I started with some Black Walnut, Hickory, and Osage. This one will have an Osage riser with Walnut accents, Hickory core, and Walnut lams.

I am making a 1 1/4″ wide riser and making the bow 66″ NTN. Should come out in the 65# range.:shock:

Here are the results of this weekend.
The Ingredients

Glue-Up

Out of the form and sanded.

Limbs

Dennis

[rayborbon]

#58597

It looks good.

[Jerry Gowins]

#59410

Looking good so far!

Jerry

[David Petersen]

#59648

Hey ‘nut — man I can’t believe how big those bandsaw blade teeth are for cutting lams! Your saw must have a rotary engine and spin faster than a P51! I envy your skills if not your bandsaw blade. 😆 dave

[Bow-Cephus]

#34269

That looks really awesome! And I will probably come crossed as ignorant to this and it is probably because I am. However, I was really curious is the core left the full length and has the riser attached. Or does the core split on both top and bottom of the riser to wrap around it in some way.
🙄 I’m trying to start building my own bows and can only hope to progress to this level, and this has been my largest misunderstanding.

[aeronut]

#42963

[quote=Bow-Cephus]is the core left the full length and has the riser attached. Or does the core split on both top and bottom of the riser to wrap around it in some way.

Maybe this will help. If you look at the riser side view picture you can see the layers. From the top it is: glass, Walnut, Hickory, Hickory, riser, Hickory, Walnut, glass. Each of the glass lams are one continuous piece running full length of the bow. The Walnut and Hickory lams start out 3′ long and are super glued together in an overlapping (scarf) joint. If you look close you can see the joint on the top Hickory lam to the left of the pencil line.

Dennis

[cody]

#49143

How think do you normally cut your lams to? Or does it just vary. Never made one before but I am really wanting to. I was just curious thanks

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