2024 What did you do today

Kirkll · March 18, 2024, 09:51:13 PM

What is that beautiful straight vertical grain material you got there? I've got some lace maple that looks just like that tiger striped piece ya got there. Is that actually maple?

Btw.... Nice job on the sander. You are going to love that with a 36 grit belt. You would be wise to polish that piece of steel with 3M pads and seal it with a clear coat.
I used. 1/2" aluminum on my table and it was damn expensive ..... I put a couple legs under the outside corners of mine to help carry the weight.

Kirk

Mad Max · March 18, 2024, 10:45:11 PM

Nice setup

Bryan Adolphe · March 18, 2024, 10:50:53 PM

Hey Kirk, the lighter figured piece is Tigerwood? My wood guy brought a bunch in to mill flooring. I just happened to see this piece and he sold it to me the other wood is zebra and Wenge.

JW_Halverson · March 18, 2024, 11:53:06 PM

I got the sinew wraps on front and back of the fletching of this latest dozen arrows. Spun up a string for another bow and put on a serving. Then I upgraded my tillering tree that hangs on the privacy fence so that I can add a scale between the pull rope and the bow string. Couple more coats of shellac on an osage recurve. Played with the dogs. (Got a six month old half yeller lab half golden retriever pup in the house. While I was eating a pork roast sammich for lunch she was occupied snapping at dust motes that were shimmering in a beam of light coming through the window.) Packed up a couple items for trades and got them sent off through the post office. Was cutting nocks in the cowhorn tip overlays of a hickory bow I am working on and busted the tile cutting saw blade in my coping saw. Dang saw blade cost me about five bucks twenty years ago and all I got out of it was a couple hundred string nocks and about a thousand arrow nocks before it gave up the ghost. That did it for me, I quit for today. Fed the dogs dinner and settled in to watch some tv this evening while looking at the insides of my eyelids. Was a good day off work.

Tomorrow I have physical therapy early in the morning, then plan on taking the dogs to the woods for a ramble in the brambles.

Buemaker · March 19, 2024, 04:18:17 AM

JW, sounds to me you need to find a hobby, something to pass the time.

Stagmitis · March 19, 2024, 12:48:20 PM

Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood

Bryan Adolphe · March 20, 2024, 01:52:50 AM

Quote from: Stagmitis on March 19, 2024, 12:48:20 PM
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood

no must be the light lol definetly the species !

Bryan Adolphe · March 20, 2024, 10:10:59 AM

Quote from: Bryan Adolphe on March 20, 2024, 01:52:50 AM
Quote from: Stagmitis on March 19, 2024, 12:48:20 PM
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood
no must be the light lol definetly the species !

A wood of many faces, its the beauty of Tigerwood .

Kirkll · March 20, 2024, 12:52:25 PM

Quote from: Bryan Adolphe on March 18, 2024, 10:50:53 PM
Hey Kirk, the lighter figured piece is Tigerwood? My wood guy brought a bunch in to mill flooring. I just happened to see this piece and he sold it to me the other wood is zebra and Wenge.

That beautiful straight grained Zebra wood will make very high performance limb cores. I used to use it together with Wenge or Paduke for hot rod speed bows. Very hard to beat in that regard. Kirk

Kirkll · March 20, 2024, 12:54:33 PM

Quote from: Stagmitis on March 19, 2024, 12:48:20 PM
Hey Bryan I have been using tigerwood AKA Goncalo alves for years- That pice looks nothing like tigerwood

I agree.... Doesn't look like any tiger wood I've seen either.

This is tigerwood....

https://www.phillipsforestproducts.com/Species/tiger-wood

Bryan Adolphe · March 20, 2024, 01:17:39 PM

Honestly guys, this makes this piece that much more valuable

i'll put this to rest now. I've worked with a lot of Tigerwood also installing hardwood floors that looks exactly like what you guys have seen but never underestimate the power of mother nature and sometimes looking outside the box. I will say this piece is unique because I've never seen a piece of Tigerwood with the figure that this piece has. Here's a couple more pictures from two different suppliers that look very similar.][attachment=2,msg3050312][attachment=3,msg3050312]

Kirkll · March 20, 2024, 01:22:25 PM

Wow! Never seen the light colored tigerwood before.... Excuse me

Kirkll · March 28, 2024, 09:02:44 AM

Made up a few spliced veneers with Lace maple and nicely colored walnut here.

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And here is the riser wood I'm using....

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Jon Lipovac · March 28, 2024, 09:05:33 AM

Looking sweet Kirk. Walnut and maple are my current favorite color combo and that maple is fantastic!

Kirkll · March 28, 2024, 09:06:03 AM

Look at this Lace maple with a little lacquer on it... this stuff is going to look good under glass me thinks...

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Jon Lipovac · March 28, 2024, 09:07:38 AM

💯!!!

Bryan Adolphe · March 28, 2024, 09:20:28 AM

Very nice Kirk ,

Buemaker · March 28, 2024, 09:44:34 AM

Them veneers look great.

onetone · March 28, 2024, 10:16:22 AM

Stunning figure in that maple!

Kirkll · March 28, 2024, 11:29:42 AM

I've had some cool looking lace maple in the past, but never had a piece quite like this one. it was mixed in with a bunch of lumber i bought last summer, but there was only one piece... So i had to do something special with it.

Time to put this bow together today.... Kirk