**Finally** The never ending build a long.

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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#106 Post by Carpdaddy »

Sounds great, some move to a cabinet scraper when they get down to that touchy stuff.

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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#107 Post by stumper »

Just spend 4 hours on the horse and I am 2/3 done. I went down to third ring so it was slow going for a bit. I made one more very small violation but I have been able to largely keep it intact. Used the big two cherries knife the whole time. Honestly, I feel encouraged if I can make these small rings work I'll have no trouble with better pieces. That being said this is still a nice slab of wood even if the rings are rather small.
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#108 Post by stumper »

Carp what made you move away from self bows?
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#109 Post by Carpdaddy »

Hard to find good staves not having local Osage. Less worry of breaking, simpler, don't take set, can use exotic woods for appearance, can leave strung, and mine (not all) are faster than my selfbows were. :ugeek: I enjoy changing things up, that's why I keep making new Forms rather than staying with one that works. The tinkering, figuring, and dreaming up different stuff keeps me occupied. :idea: :geek: I may change back, I just do what I enjoy most.

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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#110 Post by stumper »

Fair enough. If you did a lam bow in a true d shape completely straight unstrung, would you need to bake it still or could you skip the oven? Ah well I really like this whole carving the bow out thing.
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#111 Post by Carpdaddy »

The hot box just helps cure the glue, I have heard of folks who did it without a hot box, I think I read that it takes 72?? degrees to cure glue. I still prefer to be safe and go for higher temps, if I didn't have a hot box I would use the back of my old Tahoe, it gets very hot fast on a sunny day.

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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#112 Post by stumper »

Good to know. Just been curious. If I ever ventured into lam bows I would try a hill style. As it is I'm pretty fascinated by this all wood bow thing.
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#113 Post by stumper »

Gonna do some more work on Monday and post another update. I work all weekend so I will be lurking till then. The bow is very much alive though. Still gonna look for a local source of Osage. I may finish chasing the ring I have then go to ring below with a scraper to get a non violated ring. If not gonna back with rawhide
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#114 Post by stumper »

Update soon. Bump.
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Re: **Logger head** The never ending build a long.

#115 Post by Shadowhntr »

We'll be watching for it bro.
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