2023 What did you do today....

[kennym]

Happy Birthday Pat!

Bue, I'm still favoring that design for hunting. I need a good shooter to make up for my crappy shooting !!

I'm trying to finish up a new kid bow design.  52" FHLB

[Longcruise]

I turned 73 today.           

????  I thought you were an old guy 👴   

[Pat B]

Just old enough. Michael. 

[Crooked Stic]

Made a two piece recurve. 60 in. 43@28. argintine osage riser with regular osage veneers.

[kennym]

What kind of tape you using there Mike?

And what epoxy?


Looks good!!

[derekdiruz]

Built a sled for my wedges to be ground on my drum sander. Until now, I was cutting on a jig on the table saw, then grinding by hand to fade them out.

My sled made me go from bandsaw to drum sander and wedges ready to use in about 10 minutes. Much much faster and incredibly happy with it. [attachment=1]

Since it worked, I'll make a few more sets on it then I'll probably remake the sled from g10 or similar. Why not. Lol

[Longcruise]

Made a two piece recurve. 60 in. 43@28. argintine osage riser with regular osage veneers.

Mike, does the Argentine darken the way our North American American does?

[Crooked Stic]

Kenny I get all my stuff from US composites. I use the 2 to 1 slow harding resin and it was getting pretty warm before I got this one all wrapped. The tape is 1 in. Wide. Two layers of glass then a3 foot carbon gives strength and when you are shaping and you see carbon don't go any deeper.
They got the carbon tape also.
A little trick I learned. The carbon after cut ravels easy. So smear a littleCA glue on the ends.

[Kirkll]

Built a sled for my wedges to be ground on my drum sander. Until now, I was cutting on a jig on the table saw, then grinding by hand to fade them out.

My sled made me go from bandsaw to drum sander and wedges ready to use in about 10 minutes. Much much faster and incredibly happy with it. [attachment=1,msg3036636]

Since it worked, I'll make a few more sets on it then I'll probably remake the sled from g10 or similar. Why not. Lol

I gotta admit..... I've never seen a sled that was mortised like that before. I think I'd be concerned with saw dust collection in those things, and flipping them over each pass might prove interesting ... maybe drill a couple holes to let the dust out perhaps? 

I set up an angle jig on my table saw and use a thinner kerf blade to rough cut the wedges myself. Then run em through the drum sander on my sled. When I go into wedge mode I'll cut and mill 12-20 wedges at a time. I've typically got a whole drawer full of wedges I can choose from at any given time.   Kirk

[Kirkll]

Made a two piece recurve. 60 in. 43@28. argintine osage riser with regular osage veneers.

So what type of release agent did you use on this one?  You,VE been a busy boy here lately... 

[Kirkll]

I've got one going with some beautiful English walnut here that has a bloodwood I beam and matching wedges... I got a feeling this one is going to get some double takes when she's done...I sure wish I had a lot more of this English walnut than I do now.... When I cut this stuff and dried it a couple years ago, most of it was full of bugs and couldn't be used as riser stock.  I about cried over that... Even the base of the tree was infested....  But... I did get a few interesting pieces out of the crotch and a few out of a large branch.

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[Crooked Stic]

Just regular paste wax. That resin gets pretty hot cure and I am thinking it may be affecting  the paste wax.seems maybe it's melting it in places . Not sure tho.

[derekdiruz]

Built a sled for my wedges to be ground on my drum sander. Until now, I was cutting on a jig on the table saw, then grinding by hand to fade them out.

My sled made me go from bandsaw to drum sander and wedges ready to use in about 10 minutes. Much much faster and incredibly happy with it. [attachment=1,msg3036636]

Since it worked, I'll make a few more sets on it then I'll probably remake the sled from g10 or similar. Why not. Lol

I gotta admit..... I've never seen a sled that was mortised like that before. I think I'd be concerned with saw dust collection in those things, and flipping them over each pass might prove interesting ... maybe drill a couple holes to let the dust out perhaps? 

I set up an angle jig on my table saw and use a thinner kerf blade to rough cut the wedges myself. Then run em through the drum sander on my sled. When I go into wedge mode I'll cut and mill 12-20 wedges at a time. I've typically got a whole drawer full of wedges I can choose from at any given time.   Kirk

Kirk- I'm just using ca glue and tape to attach a sacrificial backer, then the wedge to the piece. I sand to parallel thickness first, then slap it in the sled and run through 3-4x. It was a very simple rise over run design on my Cnc for an angle of 2.2°, and as I said, dumb accurate. Works so much better than my table saw did for me lol

[Kirkll]

I wasn't aware you were using a cnc set up... whole different ball game there.

[derekdiruz]

Full time furniture builder in love with bows. Bad recipe 🤣

[Crooked Stic]

Here is my CNC wedge maker 

[Kirkll]

You know something.... That's not a bad idea at all using the edge sander for wedges like that. I still got a whole bunch of edge sander jigs I used to mill lams and wedges with before I upgraded to my big thickness sander. Hmmmm might have to do some digging here and find them.

The only thing I didn't like about those vertical jigs like that was my side to side thickness wasn't as accurate as the drum sander sleds. But they sure cut faster using 36 grit on the drum of that edge sander. Instant wedges! 

[Crooked Stic]

Well you got to build the jigs square.  Get the pieces parallel by running them thru your drum sander.

[Kirkll]

Check this contraption out...... I had a buddy on Ifish give me his old Panther T4 remote steering set up that had a bad motor in it after he upgraded to a new unit .  It was an interesting project mounting this on a motor without a power tilt with a tilt tube.  i had to have a new tilt tub milled, and mounted it with a bracket that fits under the clamps that hold the motor on.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dRx1gRMe7iTFhnC87

I tore it apart and put a new motor in it, and just finished installing it.  I had to fabricate a bracket to mount the steering linkage too that was pretty challenging getting it working just right. The wiring was pretty straight forward and i'm going to run the remote control with a hard wire cord rather than use the wireless relay set up they have for these things.



This is going to be really nice in the pouring rain in in Fall down on the coast, and early Springer fishing where i can set up front by the heater with my wife and still run the kicker.



I've attached a short film clip om my trail run.

Kirk

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wHXvKPtZfqcJYAys6

[wood carver 2]

I finally got around to replacing the guide bearing set on my bandsaw. I bought the replacement set some time back.
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I think I got my money's worth out of this one...😬
This was the lower back stop bearing. I couldn't see how bad it was until I took it apart. The rest of the set were tired, but nowhere near this bad.
I had to run to the store halfway through. I was removing a retaining clip and the little bugger sprung off the pliers and disappeared. I was just putting a finger on it to make sure it didn't do just that. 🤬
Dave.