Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => HowTo's and Build-a-longs => Topic started by: mullet on December 26, 2011, 06:50:51 pm
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the works. I've had this short piece of Yew screaming at me since I was gifted it. it's 58" tip to tip and I think it is going to get sinewed back and then a set of Sturgeon skins in the end. There is not much heartwood on one end and I've started reducing the bow down from the back. When I get it bending real good I plan on heat bending the tips and then sinew back it. I'm going to try and keep the handle area bending just a little.
I'll take pictures as I go along.
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This will be cool, Eddie. Can't wait to see the finished bow.
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Thanks, Pat, and promise better pictures next time. ;)
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Nice!! I have a yew stave to play with too. I'll be watching this close to get ideas. Keep the pictures coming.
George
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good luck , I too have a lurking yew stave thats been waiting around for years, maybe I'll get inspired. Your close ups look about as good as mine......
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Looks good Eddie, Lets see some more.Ron
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Com on, hurry up ! I wanna see it finished ;D ;)
Look´s great so far!
acker
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Thanks, Eddie, for the buildalong. Looks good. Jawge
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I love yew eddie ::).....and I expect a new installment everyday till its done :P. I gotta split out a short yew piece here soon to make me some west coast sinew yew shortys. So ill be watching learning my lesson ;)
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I'll work on it some more this afternoon and post some more pictures. Then I'm off to S.C. to hang out with James and Steve Parker and Chris Cade for the last weekend of deer season there.
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;D ;D Me likes the sound of this one. Yew and sturgeon,,,,,,,,,,,what more could a person ask for ;)
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Looks to be another lesson coming up....
I keep looking at this nice Yew stave but haven't build up the confidence to start working it. It's just to hard to get Yew... maybe this will push me a little closer :)
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I got home this afternoon and did some more scraping. I've got it bending but I'm gonna go slow. I've blown up too much Yew and this piece of wood has some vicious knots on the edge that have been sawn through. I'm gonna go by feel and try to keep the tiller even and guess the weight as I go. I want to get the ends bent and the sinew on it before I really start stressing it.
The first pictures in the shop is getting it to finally start bending a little, then a side profile, along with the real nasty knot right where I want to start bending the tip, (might have to compromise there) :-\, then bending it with a 54" string, It feels like about a #100 at that pull with a fastflight string digging into my fingers. But, it's geting there.
Ive got to start packing, pulling out for S.C. tomorrow nite. I'll srape some more and start bending it when I get back next week.
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Pulling it on the string
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Watch that hinge 6" below your hand. ;)
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It's the angle of the picture, Pat. There is still a lot of wood to take off, yet.
Also the second picture is the bow flipped over. The heartwood is very thin there.
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Looking great so far! I look forward to watching your progress on this one!
Man Pat you must have a good eye cause I was like what where! lol
Josh
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Left S.C. about 3:30 this morning and made it home with some daylite left. I had a great time but the deer didn't cooperate the last weekend of the season. Well, got my Jeep unloaded and decided to start bending the tips.
I'm going to do one at a time and let them cool overnight. When I met Keenan at the Classic last year I got some good advice about Yew. This is the first time I have tried bending it with Dry heat, I was really suprised. It bent like butter melting, I doubt I'll ever try steam again, never enough hands at once. ::)
Here's the first tip, the one with the bad knot that was sawed through. I was cringing when I had the heat on it but it held together so far. Tip number two tomorrow night and then bending them some more if needed along with the limbs. I like curves. ;D
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That's looking great Eddie
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Thanks, Keenan.
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Looking real good Eddie. That not does look a little ugly,but seems you have tamed it.
Tracy
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Fingers are crossed, Tracy. ;) I'm going to try and bend the tips short and steep like a Static and then work the limbs so I can still get what I want around that knot.
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looking great Eddie.i've been gone working out of town for awhile.now that i'm back,i am like what i am seeing.did you get anything with that rifle this year.let me know,Steve
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Coming along Eddie. She ought to be a sweety when you're done. 8)
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I'm taking it slow and easy, guys. I want a lot more bend in the tips, I'll just have to feel it out.
Steve, I actually missed a big hog at 15 yards on our hunt in July at the Alexacarrie Plantation. I had crawled on my stomack for about 50 yards and when I shot I guess I shot over it. :-\ But, I did get two more real big ones that weekend with my .300.
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Got a chance to work on it some more this weekend. The wife was laid up and I stayed home to give her a hand and help out with the Granddaughter.
I decided to get a little more bend out of the tips. This bow was screaming to be a static. So I bent them a little more with dry heat, scraped some more wood off and then started boiling some cow horn. ;)
I boiled the cow horn strips untill they were soft and rubbery, then threw them in my vice to flatten them. After they cooled I sanded them till they would bend, glued, and clamped them down.
I then sanded them down some more on the belt sander and worked them with a little rasp. I also started to reduce the Mass of the Tips. I'm going to take this bow to about 80% of the weight I'm looking for and then sinew it. Also, the more I work on it I think I'm going to make that nasty knot disappear.
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It looks really good Eddie can I have it when you're done?Ron :laugh:
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Thanks, Ronnie. It might be a liitle short for you.
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Looking good! I know its not to short for me >:D
Josh
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Now that's gonna be a really nice bow when your done buddy! I'm impressed!
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Looks good Eddie. Can't wait to see it finished!
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Thank you, guys. John, does that wood look familiar?
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Yeah it does look like I seen it before. :D
I'm really glad someone took to work on it that knew what they were doing. I was never gonna be able to work it because my skill level is just not up to that level yet. If I'd started in on it it would have ended up in Pappy's fire pit and Keenan was such a great guy for giving me that piece. Pappy and I looked at it several times and just shook our heads. I got a feeling your gonna turn out something super! You and Keenan sure know how to work that Yew wood!
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Hey mullet are there any update pics on this project? Just curious.
Jon