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Winter project - Yew Recurve bow
vinemaplebows:
Gordon,
Whats that on the floor Cascara??? Or is it hazel??? Looks like a stanley 151 spokeshave as well??? or did you get that at HF?
Brian
gstoneberg:
Is making the top limb longer a John Strunk influence? He taught me to do that, but I'm too OCD for that. :-[ This looks like it'll be a great bow.
George
Gordon:
Thanks Blackhawk, I'm thinking about using sinew on this bow. But I will wait to see how the recurves come out before I finalize that decision.
Coaster, it's really hard to chase a yew sapwood ring because they are paper thin. I don't worry about it too much when I make a yew self bow. And since I'm going to back this bow anyway, I'm not worried about it at all.
Brian, the stuff on the floor are actually my tipi poles - lodge pole pine. That is a Stanely spoke shave, but I trued the base and bought a better blade for it.
George, yes my bow building is very much influenced by John.
Gordon:
Using a sharp draw knife I trim the wood down to my lines to establish the limb taper. I then use a spoke shave to clean up my lines.
Next I use a sharp hatchet to rough out the handle area. Make sure your stoke is always toward the handle when you are working in the fades or you will risk splintering off more wood than you planned. I then clean up the handle area using the #49 rasp.
Gordon:
Now I’m going to work on roughing out the thickness taper for the limbs. I start by making a mark at about 1 inch at each fade. I have a little tool that I built for accurately measuring thickness from the back of the bow. I then make a mark at about ¾” thickness at the tips.
Using my fingers as a guide I draw a line that gradually tapers from the fade to the tips. I do this on each side of both limbs. When I am done I will have lines on each limb that will guide my wood removal as I rough out the thickness taper.
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