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Pappy:
 Welcome,Looks like yall did jump in with both feet,if yall are like most it will become a life long journey. Enjoy. :) :)
   Pappy

Badger:
  Welcome, it is great to see the whole family jump in together. Brought me back a few years, my dad would help me get started on stuff but really had no interest himself. We never figured out how to select a stave and almost 40 years went buy before I got back into it.

George Tsoukalas:
Welcome! This is so nice to see this thread gladdened my heart. :) Jawge

blackhawk:
Welcome guys....that's priceless stuff right there...awesome :)


Could/should this be moved to the bows section so more folks see this great thread? ;)

JBR:
Thanks everyone.  Like many of my outdoor passions, I can tell this is going to be addicting.  If this thread needs to be moved to the 'Bow" section now, fine with me.  I'll leave that to the mods.

Okay, so first problem...

The staves, all 3 of them, have delaminated during the shaping and floor tillering.  I was never really thrilled about the glue that came in the kit as it seemed to be barely enough to cover the wood, and it began drying almost instantly, so work was rushed.  My concerns came true when when each stave began to have separation between the layers and had to be completely separated for regluing. 

After removing the old glue, which wasn't much, I re-glued the risers on two of them with Titebond III and that has worked well.  However, all 3 of them have had the bamboo backing delaminate and we are back to having to re-glue the backing on 2 staves and all 3 pieces on the last stave.

I have done some searching here on glues and adhesives to determine if the Titebond III we have will work for gluing up the bamboo backing.  I tend to get from the responses that it works fine for many, but I have not determined if that includes for bamboo backing.  Looking in the 3Rivers catalog I see that there are some more expensive epoxies. 

So, what would you recommend for my glue, since I don't want to glue them a third time?

During the "down time" the boys convinced me to drive them to Lowe's in the snow storm that has kept them home from school, to go get some red oak boards to begin working on some board bows while waiting for the glue ups on their bamboo backed bows.  It never stops does it?

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