Building my own recurve.

[Loreva13]

It is coming out nice!

[Oneway]

Outstanding Job

[Greywolf in Hawaii]

Pictures....Must....have.....Pictures......

[Hoggslayer]

24 hours is up. Get to work on that bow so we can see it.

[Ron]

I'm enjoying the thread and your doing an outstanding job.

[THETEXAN]

Awesome thread !!! Can't wait to see the BOW !!!!

[bassmatt72]

Worked on bow today, eating supper now pics in a little bit.

[bassmatt72]

I got to spend about half the day in the shop working on the bow! First I put the form, and stands in the hot box and stored it away under my work bench.

Then I replaced the tires and blade on my bandsaw. To get the tires on I had to heat them in some hot water. Its amazing how nice a new blade is!


Here it is this morning.

Lots of extra epoxy around the fades. I wonder what they look like under there?

Removing some of the extra epoxy that squished out.


After I removed the extra epoxy to the point where the bow would sit flat on my workbench I marked the cut off and string groves.
Binghams plans come on one large sheet of rather light weight paper, so I made patterns out of plexiglass. The plexiglass is strong enough to last for lots of uses and it is flexable enough to mark the limbs.

[Hoggslayer]

Looking good!

[bassmatt72]

Rough cutting shape of limbs, notice safety equipment? We only have one body so take care of it!

I used my drum and belt sander to get a closer sanding to the final shape.

I was wondering how my glue lines were going to look, this one is pretty good!

Here's a look down the length of the bow, still looking straight!

Filing in the rough string groves.

It needs some limb tip overlays! I'll use a thin cut of left over riser material and the cut off pieces of the maple parallel.

To get a good bond I roughed all the surfaces including the fiberglass limb.

And the last thing of the day was to epoxy the overlays on, clamp, and lamps set to heat and help cure epoxy.

Its going to be a few days before I can spend a lot of time on the bow but maybe I can sneak in an hour here or there! So, keep watching!

[Greywolf in Hawaii]

Lookin Good !!!

[Bill]

Wow!

[bassmatt72]

The tip overlay after cured, ready to shape.


And here it is close to final shape.

I'm really pleased how my glue lines and riser fades are looking. from what I have read this was one of the areas that is hard to do really well?

Next thing I did was prep and glue the riser overlays. I preped these just like I did the tip over lays and laminations of the bow. I used some scrap and cut out some clamping blocks to match the curve of the riser so I could clamp things together to cure.

Plenty of epoxy oozing out so I'm pretty sure I've got enough on it!

And finally placed some lamps to get some heat on it to help cure the epoxy.

I actually brought to work with me today and finished shaping the other tip overlay and rough in the string groves. Might get to work on it a little tomm.? Seems like things are moving pretty fast, but I'm sure things will slow after I get the riser rough cut and start hand sanding and rasping to shape.
Thanks for checking it out!

[Flint knapper]

Looking Good.

If you have another trad bow with a grip you like, it will sure help when forming the hangle.

[Greywolf in Hawaii]

Once ya get the rough shape penciled on it the extra wood cut away, 10-15 minutes on the spindle sander you'll be ready to check the brace on it.

Nice, there are a lot of handle shapes and grip shapes, have fun. it only gets better from here out.