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in reply to: Curly Hickory Longbow #55370

I have my hotbox hooked to a timer and do my gluing in the evening. I set the timer for around six hours and leave it overnight. I took the bow out of the form the next morning and looked it over.

The Hickory turned out real purty.

Next, I checked the tiller, which turned out great, no problems with that at all, and then I marked and cut out the riser and limb profiles (no pics of that either:roll:).

I decided to use Black Walnut and Hickory for the tip overlays and started working on that.

I had to sand down the belly a tad because the lams had slipped just a bit on the riser. Nothing bad, just needed a little elbow grease.

I decided to use some Ipe for the grip overlay and cut a thin piece and glued it on. I sanded down the bottom end of it and was real pleased with the way it looked.

I worked my way to the top end and discovered air bubbles underneath. I sanded quite a bit off and it just would not go away. In this picture I had sanded about 3/4″ of it off and it just kept getting worse. I finally sanded the whole Ipe overlay off and glued on another one being a lot more careful with the glue.

More coming……..

Dennis

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in reply to: How many bowyers? #52497

I just started a new one. It will be a Hickory core with Osage lams. I don’t have much free time and I just hope I get it done by October. I just ordered the glass and glue for it.

Sanding lams.

A bow’s worth of Hickory and Hedge.

I am going to do a build-along on another forum and I’ll post it here too if anybody wants to see it.

Here are some pics of a Curly Hickory I built last year.

Dennis

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in reply to: Cool Trad turkey video #42817

That is a great video. There’s a lot more to hunting than killing and you show that very well with this video.

Thanks for sharing.

Dennis

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