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First try at no horn asiatic - build along

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jameswoodmot:
Glad you’re interested sleek, doesn’t seem to have many views so maybe I should have posted in bows? Anyway, to continue-

I made up a second former, can’t remember the name of them caul? This way I can tweak the curved a bit and also it will be belly out, not belly in as the first former was.

Then I got it mounted under the long burner. I’ve not used this much, I got a better regulator for the propane and a better tap. It maintained its flame much better. Main issue is that any moving air blows the heat away. It gets pretty hot in my shop so I had the fans blowing to keep me cool but it disturbed the flame a lot so I had to turn them off and cook myself as well as the limbs!

I tried oiling the belly’s too to even out the heat. I think it worked but as it was (another) thing I haven’t tried before on a wood I haven’t used before I’m not sure what colour the Cherry should turn after a good amount of roasting.
The biggest issue I had was the oil seeped round into the splice. Gonna have to clean that up pretty good.

After heat treating I have them a bit of a bend and then took another 3mm or so off the thickness.
Of course doing this I’ve taken back some of the heat treatment but I have no reference at all as to how thick the limbs should be.

jameswoodmot:
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jameswoodmot:
ne of the biggest take aways so far is that heat treating cherry smells DIVINE. One of the best wood smells I have so far experience.

On boo boo I have realised- I have constructed the handle as i have seen in the past, except my limbs are going to be a good bit wider than a horn bow. This means I’m going to struggle to get the handle width very narrow. I should have made the handle section longer, but I was trying to minimise the overall length and so shortened it all up. We will see how that plays out.

The next day I filed and fettled the splice. Ignore the centre lines they have gone out the window.
I took a bit of material off the inside of the limb side of the splice to try and get rid of the oil residue.


Then I took a hacksaw blade and cut in the grooves. I dont know what that’s called. It went pretty smoothly, in hindsight I would have done better with a coarser saw blade or taking an old scraper and cutting teeth into it. I think hacksaw teeth are a little fine maybe.

Either way it went pretty well, and I was sure to take down the limb side, again to try and get past any oil.

Originally I thought these grooves were supposed to interlock but I think actually they’re just to key the surface good and proper.

jameswoodmot:
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jameswoodmot:
I did that to both sides and then glued with normal wood glue. I don’t fancy experimenting with hide glue on this one.

Next I will do some rough shaping on the grip to see where we’re at. Then I’ll mark out my centre line and fit up the siyahs.

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