Rob. Me too mate. The tiller should be either real close or spot on. As for the weight now thats another question, cause this being the first time I have used Yew. If it turns out light I can pike the limbs and if it's a little on the heavy side I can trap the limbs.
Looking good Russ! Would you please explain the glass. Do you buy it in sheets or what? Thanks Rob for reminding me of the Rexosnoranator. Better get busy sharpening throat cutting knives... Man your bow looks awesome!
Will. I buy the class in 36" x 1.5" x .040 strips, it smooth on one side and rough on the other for epoxy to grab. It is a real pain in the butt to use too cause you get little splinters that itch like crazy and you can't see them to pull them out
You make it seem so simple , although we know different . Sterling Job fella , she's coming on great .
Ok string grooves done. These are not Rob's limbs but it's how I do the grooves. I start off with a triangle file to do a guide groove. Then using a round file complete the groove. Now for the holes. Using the drilling jig. Drill the holes. Here she is together for the first time. At brace. Now lets see how she tillers. Well I hate to brag BUT I nailed it dont have to do a thing they are pulling even with no twist. Well so much for the good news. The bad news she is under weight. I blame the Sham Wow guy for this. She is 49lb @ 28" To get her up to weight ( 55lb @ 28 ) I will have to pike the limbs an inch but wont do that till I hear from Rob. Taking an inch off each limb should give me 7lb.
About all I can do till I hear back from Rob is cut the butt over lays and get the tip over lays ready to eopxy onto the limbs. First off I tapered the the tip over lays. Then roughed up the phenolic. Note the Ebony strips they will be the butt over lays.
Well Russ, if it was just for bears I'd say leave it but being that this is going to be my mountain goat bow, and goats are so damn tough to penetrate, I'm thinking it's going to need to be 64" rather than 66". That's still 2" longer than my recurve and 4" longer than my longbow. Congrats on the tillering!
No worries mate I will go and pike them now:d I'll let you know on the poundage in a little bit but from my caculations it should be 56lb @ 28" after I pike them.
Ok just piked the limbs an inch. so she will now be a 64" bow. Here is what we have at your draw lenght of 29" 58lb is that where you wanted it?
Awesome job Russ! I like the antler tip pics. Always wondered how that was done! Do you have to file grooves in the bone as well??
Joe. Yes sir I do Ok now it's time to shape the tips. Cut off some of the tape to expose the glass where we are going to add the overlays. Rough them up. Mix up some epoxy, some bowyers use super glue for this but I prefer to use epoxy. Apply epoxy to all joining sections. Then using spring clams attach them. Then pop the limb into the heat box for a couple of hours. Now I can finally get to start shaping the riser.
Me either mate. IMHO they are gonna look great. I am just about to take the first one out of the box so I will wet it down after I take the tape off to get a sneak peek:d
This is what we have after an hour of shaping on the belt sander. There is still a lot of material to come off the riser yet. But once again the heat has driven me out of the shop. I will get the overlays on the other limb then call it quits till later tonight when it cools down again.
Well 1 limb is kinda finished, it just needs sanding down and the overlays feathered in a tad more. Here is the Ebony wet down of course it's gonna look a lot better than this once it is sanded and the finish on. The overall look of the limb. The other limb is in the heat box with the overlays epoxied on.
Too bad the tips weren't ivory; ebony overlays and ivory tips. Oh well, I guess antler is as close to ivory as we non-natives can get. I assume that antler is from the blacktail sheds I sent down?
