John and Darren's Excellent Adventure

This is a continuation of a day of bowbuilding bliss started here.

10:15

Sorry it's been so long since the last update but we got busy. Bad news on Darren's bow. Seems the design was just too aggressive and the bow chrysalled on him. Here's the chrysals which look like diagonal lines criss-crossing the limb.

I got my bamboo tapered and then used a heatgun to put the bend into it. It folded after about 2 seconds of heating :-)

Then I glued it up.

Here's the tip.

As you can see, I used about 15 clamps and then added rubber strips in between. This makes for a great glue line. I'll add some heat to it and then tuck it in for the night. I'm gonna try to sinew my pony bow next.

12:00 AM

Wow, it's getting late. I've got the BBO put to bed under an aluminum foil tent.

No, that's not me sleeping :-)

Here's the ELB I roughed out. Still gotta get some sapwood off and chase the ring before final laout. Problem is, the BBO is taking up my workbench.

Here's the snaky bow all ready for final layout and ring chasing. Same problem as above.

Darren's trying to overcome the problem of no bench with his newest bow to be.

Things are getting a little blurry after 11 hours of bowmaking - hehehehe.
I'm still thinking of tackling the sinew.

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