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Hickory Board Buildalong

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medicinewheel:
cc! - if you want a really nice 40#bow back it with hickory and pull it into reflex while gluing it up. i made one like that a while ago. i tillered really carfully and S L O W L Y and i have saved bit over an inch of reflex.
but if it's now problem to return the board and get anotherone that's even better.
frank

Pat B:
I've never seen hickory with rings that thick. What are the width and thickness dimentions of that stave?  You may be able to remove a backing strip right from that stave, reverse it and glue it back in a Perry reflex.
   Some of Dan Perry's flight shooting bows are hickory backed hickory. He does live in Utah wehere the humidity is almost nothing.   Pat

Newbowyer:
Taking it back is a problem. Nobody sells hickory but this place, and there selection was not good. It wasnt terrible expensive 10$ for two boards. If you are wondering why I am not using the other one is because it actually cracked on the car ride home from the wood shop ( I have wonderful luck).




Anyway, I am going to go ahead with it. Normally I would take it back if it wasnt far away and if I knew that there was much better boards there.



I was contemplating my what my dimensions would be, I figured it would be alright to trace one limb of my last bow and then trace the same limb again to make it a complete bow. Get it? I marked the middle of the bow to the nearest 1/16 and traced the outline, flipped it around and did it again. I ended going right over the knot pictured above. I looked at it all torn up about what to do then looked at it from the side and realized it wasnt deep at all. In my vast knowledge of bow making  ;) I decied to go over it. So Right now I have everything traced out ready to be rasped down into a bow.

. The knot is very close to the edge, or even on the edge as you can see its less then a ring deep? Or am I wrong?




Here is is being traced.

Newbowyer:
Jawge, I went to your site and kinda got confused on what type of grain orientation is best. So I made a paint picture.

What orientation is best. Board A or Board B
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l127/jjrb715/Boards.jpg

Board B is on the right, Sorry for tiny pic

DanaM:
For a board I'd say B, A is more like a stave cut from a tree. "A" can work if ya have a thick enuf piece it would
be possible to reduce it to one growth ring and essentially have a stave. Is this right guys??

Dana

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