My wife is the leader for a group of about 30 girls from 12-17 and they are at girls camp this week. I figured this was the perfect time for Cody to build his bow.
I told you guys I was going to post a build along when Cody made his first bow. The bow is 68" mulberry that Cody helped me to cut last fall. He even split the log himself. A lot of work for a 10 year old. It had a lot of sapwood on it so we used the band saw to remove the sapwood. I let him do all the cutting, I just didn't get far from the kill switch.
I did spell him off for a while when he was using the draw knife to remove the rest of the sapwood and chase a ring. I even gave him one of the pieces of banding that Pappy let me have. He filed and sharpened it and made himself a scraper. He then sealed the back with glue. I helped him with the dimensions, and he laid out the bow. I helped him cut out the profile so he didn't loose all his hard work.
That took up all day Monday, so we cooled off before bed.
Justin
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