Here are the pics!
I prepped the gluing surfaces by scraping them with a fine toothed saw blade. I placed the lams on a piece of plastic wrap that I wrapped around the lams after gluing them together. I also put painters tape on the belly side of the osage and the back side of the bamboo. I tried this on another backed bow I glued together and liked the result, as the dried glue comes off with the tape (and lowers the chance of me taking off too much when sanding/rasping off of the wood!).
And here's how the bow looks on the form.
I used clamps to hold one limb together while I wrapped the other limb with a bike tube. I also clamped down the flipped section. When I got to that clamp, I would move it up an inch and keep wrapping tightly. Also, I love Smooth On! I had a moment after clamping down the bow of "Did I line everything up right?" and did some intense remeasuring and some slight shifting. This was about 30 minutes after I mixed the epoxy together. The Smooth On was still quite flexible at this point, so if I did have to make adjustments to how I placed the bow on the form (which I didn't!!), I could have without problems. As a random note, if you do use Smooth On for a trilam, I used about 120 grams (60 of each part) and I didn't have much leftover. I haven't really seen much out there for how much adhesive people are using for these glue-ups, so there it is!
