Okay behold the numerous amount of rookie mistakes, yet I'm pleasantly surprised by the resilience of the bow, as I expected it to fail halfway in the tillering process.
I made some gross mistakes somewhere between splitting and defining the bows shape, as the grain was a bit curvy and the grain was so light it was barely visible, i made some cuts on the back of bow that can still prove to be rather fatal to the bow seeing the fact is has some out running grain lines.
Then I realized that the natural curve of the wood should be opposite instead of with the bend of the bow, that way the back and belly changed sides, so that one rather Hilarious rookie mistake became Really visible ^^
Now I had to take of the original belly and fit a new one on the other side a job I'm gonna do next week. I first took off the old belly,
To use my wrokbench as a Tillering table I made myself a new Benchdog to hold my bow belly, and used my already existing benchdogs to help me hold the string, in this way I had a really wel ajustable tillering Jig.
And then went back to a little more tillering, with the huge and obvious stiff spot in there it wasnt hard to tell what part needed work, I had also put in an insert at the place I already made an arrow notch, yup rookie mistake number two.
Then I decided that I wanted a recurve, and I learned something that could help me avoid having to build a steambox, so I put the kettle of water on the fire, and started looking for something that would make a nice recurve Jig, in this case, an old Sled.
I used some small wooden slats to help me even the pressure out on the bow and to stop me from hurting the wood.
I then doused the far ends of the limbs with boiling water for about 2 to 4 minutes, put a old cloth on the sled so there wouldnt be any stain from the rust, and put the bow on there and clamped it down for about 5 minutes
And there we go, a wannabe recurve, done in about 25 minutes.
I will get back to you guys with the developments on the belly, and for the expert boyers on here, give me some pointers cause I made allot of mistake and want my next bow to be a looker, and a heck of a shooter.
any questions are very welcome ^^
And I believe the piece of wood I used was Aspen or a type of Poplar, but not entirely sure though, it is a very white wood, small grain, fibrous and on the tangential section the rings came up yellow.
Yours sincerely Ruud
my humbling respect to you boyers out there
I made some gross mistakes somewhere between splitting and defining the bows shape, as the grain was a bit curvy and the grain was so light it was barely visible, i made some cuts on the back of bow that can still prove to be rather fatal to the bow seeing the fact is has some out running grain lines.
Then I realized that the natural curve of the wood should be opposite instead of with the bend of the bow, that way the back and belly changed sides, so that one rather Hilarious rookie mistake became Really visible ^^
Now I had to take of the original belly and fit a new one on the other side a job I'm gonna do next week. I first took off the old belly,
To use my wrokbench as a Tillering table I made myself a new Benchdog to hold my bow belly, and used my already existing benchdogs to help me hold the string, in this way I had a really wel ajustable tillering Jig.
And then went back to a little more tillering, with the huge and obvious stiff spot in there it wasnt hard to tell what part needed work, I had also put in an insert at the place I already made an arrow notch, yup rookie mistake number two.
Then I decided that I wanted a recurve, and I learned something that could help me avoid having to build a steambox, so I put the kettle of water on the fire, and started looking for something that would make a nice recurve Jig, in this case, an old Sled.
I used some small wooden slats to help me even the pressure out on the bow and to stop me from hurting the wood.
I then doused the far ends of the limbs with boiling water for about 2 to 4 minutes, put a old cloth on the sled so there wouldnt be any stain from the rust, and put the bow on there and clamped it down for about 5 minutes
And there we go, a wannabe recurve, done in about 25 minutes.
I will get back to you guys with the developments on the belly, and for the expert boyers on here, give me some pointers cause I made allot of mistake and want my next bow to be a looker, and a heck of a shooter.
any questions are very welcome ^^
And I believe the piece of wood I used was Aspen or a type of Poplar, but not entirely sure though, it is a very white wood, small grain, fibrous and on the tangential section the rings came up yellow.
Yours sincerely Ruud
my humbling respect to you boyers out there
