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Electric sander for tillering?
Pappy:
You ant a snob JD,to each there on. :)
Pappy
lowell:
I've got to agree with JD.
I like the sounds I get from a rasp and scraper SOOO much better than the noise from a sander!!! ;)
Badger:
I do a lot of ipe and have turned mainly to my rasp and scraper, scrapers work well on ipe. I would highly recomend to anyone making bows to take the time to get comfortable with hand tools, it is a much more pleasurabe experience and not much difference in time. I often roughout stav's on a band saw but more and more find myself just using a drawknife and getting the excersize, Steve
duffontap:
--- Quote from: Gordon on July 05, 2007, 08:28:38 pm ---Had a guy attend one of our bowyer meetings last year. He made a lot of noise about how he could take a a piece of vine maple from rough dimensions to final tiller in about 15 minutes. When all was ready he gathered the group around the belt sander and proceeded to grind away. In 15 minutes he produced a 20 lbs bow with a bad hinge. He quietly slipped out shortly after and we never heard from him again.
--- End quote ---
That's hilarious Gordon! I wish I could have seen that.
J. D.
backgardenbowyer:
Thanks for the advice about ipe - I didn't like the dust at all, and to my surprised it chysalled, possibly 'cos the wood got wet when I was testing it. The next bow I made, and the one I shoot now, is an elb hickory back, balau core and lemonwood belly, black horn nocks. Tillered that the old fashioned way with a scraper and patience, but lemon wood is lovely stuff to work with. The balau seems less noxious than ipe though it may not be quite as good. The elm bow done with the sander in only for a bit of fun in the new NFAS primitive class, and I admit to using a file and sandpaper for the fine tuning. I don't think I'd risk a sander tillering expensive timber.
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