Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: PEARL DRUMS on March 19, 2013, 06:07:45 pm
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Im sure this is old news to some of you. Its all new to me. I used to lay out my thickness lines with a compass. It worked good. The other day while tryng to lay out the nastiest stave Ive ever touched I tripped over an idea in my head. I dont have three hands so you will have to use your imagination, its quite simple. The stick of wood is a 1.5" x 4" chunk of something off my shop floor. The marks arent any certain dimension, just gauge lines I use. I cut the groove in with a rasp edge and rat tail. My forefinger knuckle keeps my intended line right on the bows back/side line while my right hand gently keeps a pencil pushed down and into the groove as I pull from handle to tip. Boy does it work good, fast and super easy. The best part is that it follows every nook and cranny the back has to offer, thats valuable to fine tiller. I always lay them out parallel. The taper comes in later for my style of building.
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cool beans pearlie, bub
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My finger and a pencil work just as good,n they even taper as well ;)
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LIKE!!! :)
OneBow
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My finger and a pencil work just as good,n they even taper as well ;)
Yah, until you cant find your "mark" on the other side of the limb. I did that to, never was consistent enough for me.
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What do ya mean? I run both sides and never lose my mark?
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Pretty cool Pearly..
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Did you hear that????????? I just stole the idea 8) JeffW
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I will use it, never was very good at the finger pencil thing. You need a name for it now.
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I have been using these things on pyramid board bows for a while. I think I might of got em from one of foresttrekkers buildalongs on tradgang. I imagine you might be able to rig up something rounded like for stave bows too? I use em same as you except it is always one measurement.
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Cool that should work great ,but I do like Blackhawk,carpenter line we call it. :)
Pappy
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Very cool PD 8) where can I buy one?
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Good, PD. Good to reinforce that you have to follow the back. I just eye ball it. Jawge
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I used the finger thing as Pappy and Chris use, but could never get equal amounts on both sides. Thats where my little gauge lines come into play. I was always erasing and going back again trying to keep each side even. This little diddy elimanates all that jazz. One line and its right every time, plus no SLIVERS! I dont like redundant work, or re-do's. Just my quirky thing I guess.
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thats how i use these -
whichever ones handy at the moment.
a bub of mine took a wood one like this and drilled it out to hold a pencil
with a screw to keep the pencil from moving.
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Weather it's new or old you thought of it so congrats. Similar to what I use to mark my centerline. I like it.
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Sometimes the simple basic tools one makes is just as usefull as a Lee Valley tool.
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I first mark several dots along the side of the stave, all measured the same thickness from the back with a ruler, then i run a carpenters line with my fingers, using the dots as guides to make sure i'm staying uniform all the way down. Doesn't take much longer, but your method would definitely cut that extra step out. May steal it ;)
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I've always just eyeballed it and tapered it with my fingers.... always seems to come out right :/
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My finger and a pencil work just as good,n they even taper as well ;)
+1
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That works good Pearly. Kind of like the old sign painter trick for doin layout lines on a sign board with a yardstick and pencil. Even used a pin striping brush with a yardstick run along the edge like that. Here's my crude marking guage I threw together in a few minutes. Only takes one hand holdin the bow and the other the guage. Wedge on one side of the pencil is 1/2", wedge on the other side gives me 5/8". Round dowel follows all the humps and bums great.
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Randman - thats what I made too!