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Bamboo, Ipe Hickory Build (Repair In Progress)

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Sanford:
Hey guys!

I am new to this community in particular, but have built a few bows in the past. Thought I would share my build I am currently working on.

OK so that makes it sound like, hey, yeah I just decided to starts building a bow and I'll show you the whole thing.

Wrong,

This seems to be a project that I have been putting off for almost two years. Way back when, I ordered the Bamboo, Ipe, and hickory, which was pre tapered (yeah I'm slightly lazy sometimes) from Jim at Rudder bows, who has always been helpful to me. Well so I glued that up last summer since I ordered them in the winter, and was waiting for warm weather so My URAC 185 would dry. My attic above the garage tuned out to be a great heat box...

hmm, you might be thinking, why not just build a heat box.....silly you! you forgot I'm lazy. But really I am a full time Mechanical Engineering Student who also works, rock climbs, mountain bikes, runs, and is captain of a SAE Mini Baja team, so I somehow found things to do besides finish the bow.

So basically I have no pictures of my glue up. All that I did was sand everything, slap some properly mixed per spec Urac on there, used some shrink wrap and reflexed the box in a form. Let it Dry, then glued on a riser, let that dry. Then i Decided, just to be safe, because as I always say, saftey third, I would let the bow glue really dry......and wait another year before I touched it again.

Which brings everyone up to date!

I'm shooting for a 67'' NTN (with the reflex) bow. With a wieght of about 55-60 lb at about 29'' of draw. Not to picky about the wieght, rather it be heavier.

So I finally cut out the limbs and roughed out the handle using a belt sander, band saw and tears of joy to wash away the saw dust. Which Brings me to the first pictures. (see below)

So yeah, roughed it all out here, arrow shelf was pretty high so that was gong to have to come down a bit. So after trying to will the handle into shape with only my mind, I decided to use a 4 sided rasp, which worked much better than my telepathic powers, and resulted in this...(see below)

So i sanded the back down and got most tool marks out of the limbs and did some more handle work.......

You might be asking yourself at this point a few questions
 A.) Why is this guy so wierd?
B.) Why would you spend that much time on the handle pre tillering stage?

as for A, no idea. ANd B, i wanted the challenge of making the entired bow without scuffing up the handle ( or I'm an idiot)

Oh well, must be very careful.

So then the i moved onto tillering. I had to make a tillering tree, using various scrap woods. and i have pctures of that pluss the early stages of tillering that I'll soon post.

Until next time.....

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Sanford:
For more Pictures and to see my process a little better, visit my web album here, and check out what's there. I'll make sure the important stuff gets onto the forum though.

http://picasaweb.google.com/KNagy88/BowBuild#

Sanford:
Ok so i uploaded some more Photos to the album, involing the tillering process. Also attached here relate to the first post after I did some more handle work.

I built the Tillering Stick out of a 2x4 and some screws, nothing fancy, but get the job done!

I will tiller using mainly the Rasp, My knife, and some sand paper. Knowing that shaping the hanlde so much then tillering was a bad thing, but i blatantly ignored that, I want to give a word of advice. Many things could go wrong, including your bow breaking, meaning you wasted your time. Well not completely, you will have learned something and will also have a great looking handle. For me, Even though i used padding between the vice and the handle, I still damaged the wood a little, meaning I will have to sand it down further. See, its best to just leave a lot on the handle so you don't even have to worry about it. I on the other hand, will be Extremely Careful.

Haven't go to far on this yet, as i want to take my time with tillering the bow to perfection. Any advice on proper Reflex deflex tillering would be awesome and well appreciated.

Thanks to Josh for the picture advice, and here are some more. Also check out the web album in my second post for more!

And P.S.
I'm a really bad typer, and i harldy ever read back over for mistakes, so sorry for the misspells, un-capped letters, and sentence fragments. Sometimes I go back and Modify what I say if it's way off.

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youngbowyer33:
I like your style. great build along so far. Welcome

Josh:
If you click on "Additional Options"  below the type box when you are making a new post,  you can attach up to 6 pictures 200kb or less directly from your pictures folder on your computer. Click "browse" and find the folder on your computer with the pic you want to attach and hit "open".  After you attach your first pic, click "more attachments" to the right of the attach box and another attach box will open under the first one. I think you can post up to 6 pics per post this way.  That is the easiest way to attach pics to your post.   :)

*EDIT*  Cool you got it working now...   :)

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