My newest hunting bow, And build along.
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Isnt she pertty. I cant wait to see how she shoots.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/ipe.jpg)
I know I said I was going to put down the all wood bows and make some fast glass lam bows, but you cant blame me for wanting to wittle out a nice ipe bamboo bow. Besides, I cant seem to talk Russ into sending me some free lams.![Big Grin](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Ill be shooting for 69" ntn, 60+# @ 30". I cant pass up a nice piece of ipe.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/ipe.jpg)
I know I said I was going to put down the all wood bows and make some fast glass lam bows, but you cant blame me for wanting to wittle out a nice ipe bamboo bow. Besides, I cant seem to talk Russ into sending me some free lams.
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Ill be shooting for 69" ntn, 60+# @ 30". I cant pass up a nice piece of ipe.
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Heres the boo for the backing.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/boo.jpg)
Im about to head out to the shop to cut out the stave and floor tiller, as well as grind the boo flat. I think im going to put in about 1.5" reflex. Dont think ill need any deflex. Boo backed ipe shoots so well with out it, i feel no need to deflex it. I still migh put ina bit, just to make it look sexy.![Big Grin](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/boo.jpg)
Im about to head out to the shop to cut out the stave and floor tiller, as well as grind the boo flat. I think im going to put in about 1.5" reflex. Dont think ill need any deflex. Boo backed ipe shoots so well with out it, i feel no need to deflex it. I still migh put ina bit, just to make it look sexy.
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Kent.
Mate it should look sweeeeet.
Ithink you need to do a build along thread for this bow![Wink](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif)
I will be doing a build along when I get the rest of the material for Gregs bow.
Mate it should look sweeeeet.
Ithink you need to do a build along thread for this bow
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I will be doing a build along when I get the rest of the material for Gregs bow.
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I wish I was a picture on your wall while your doing this. I would like to try this once again. I made a handle and riser and it never made it any farther then that. Patience is a big thing in this stuff. I didn't have it at the time I guess!![8D]
Good luck with it Burnie!! I'm sure it will turn out great.
Good luck with it Burnie!! I'm sure it will turn out great.
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All right. I decieded to take some pics and show my progress and explain what im doing.
I did not take any pics of the layout. I had yet to decide to do so, so ill just have to explain. First I ripped the billet into a 1 1/4" by 3/4" by 71". After ripping the board, Iuncovered a larva hole. Darn little bugger. It went in an angle to a depth of 3/4". I could not keep my original 71" design because that would put this hole in the working part of the limb. I wanted the hole to be as far in the fade as I could get it, so it bears no real load. So I cut an extra inch off the opposite end so the hole falls in the middle of my fade. Ill deal with this hole just before glue up. Here is a pick of the hole with a finish nail stuck in it.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08004.jpg)
And another pic to show how deep the hole is. Its hard to see, but its about 1/8" in diameter and about 3/4" deep.Im holding the nail where it met the board.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08006.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08007.jpg)
I dont think the hole will pose a problem after I adjusted my design a bit and after I fill it later. Now time to pick my back and belly. I chose the back according to natural reflex. It didnt have much, but just a little. Then I marked the handle. Three inches either side of mid. line, giving me a 6" handle. From there, I marked off two more inches on either side to be my fades.
I now layed my billet on its side and marked my limb tapers. Which on this board I went from 3/4" at the fades to 1/2" at the tips. I did this for both limbs and went to the band saw to cut them out. I cut them out a tad heavy and used my belt sander to smooth them out, still leaving them a bit heavy. I want them thick because of the weight im shooting for. I can always cut more off, but can never grow it back.
Now I layed my billet on its back and marked my limbs off. I marked me a new line 4" from my fades. Also, I marked mid line on my tips and measured 1/4" either side of the midline so I would have 1/2" tips. Ill reduce them later, but will leave them thick for now. I now drew a straight line connecting the tips to the line I marked 4" from the fade, so my limbs will be 1 1/4" from fade to the 4" line and taper to 1/2" . I used the band saw to cut them out and the belt sander to even them up. Agian leaving them a tad heavy.
Here is the billet as a stave now.
Tips
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08009.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08012.jpg)
Fades on out.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08010.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08011.jpg)
Crap, Sorry you cant read the calipers very well. I was trying to show how I left everything a bit heavy.
I did not take any pics of the layout. I had yet to decide to do so, so ill just have to explain. First I ripped the billet into a 1 1/4" by 3/4" by 71". After ripping the board, Iuncovered a larva hole. Darn little bugger. It went in an angle to a depth of 3/4". I could not keep my original 71" design because that would put this hole in the working part of the limb. I wanted the hole to be as far in the fade as I could get it, so it bears no real load. So I cut an extra inch off the opposite end so the hole falls in the middle of my fade. Ill deal with this hole just before glue up. Here is a pick of the hole with a finish nail stuck in it.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08004.jpg)
And another pic to show how deep the hole is. Its hard to see, but its about 1/8" in diameter and about 3/4" deep.Im holding the nail where it met the board.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08006.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08007.jpg)
I dont think the hole will pose a problem after I adjusted my design a bit and after I fill it later. Now time to pick my back and belly. I chose the back according to natural reflex. It didnt have much, but just a little. Then I marked the handle. Three inches either side of mid. line, giving me a 6" handle. From there, I marked off two more inches on either side to be my fades.
I now layed my billet on its side and marked my limb tapers. Which on this board I went from 3/4" at the fades to 1/2" at the tips. I did this for both limbs and went to the band saw to cut them out. I cut them out a tad heavy and used my belt sander to smooth them out, still leaving them a bit heavy. I want them thick because of the weight im shooting for. I can always cut more off, but can never grow it back.
Now I layed my billet on its back and marked my limbs off. I marked me a new line 4" from my fades. Also, I marked mid line on my tips and measured 1/4" either side of the midline so I would have 1/2" tips. Ill reduce them later, but will leave them thick for now. I now drew a straight line connecting the tips to the line I marked 4" from the fade, so my limbs will be 1 1/4" from fade to the 4" line and taper to 1/2" . I used the band saw to cut them out and the belt sander to even them up. Agian leaving them a tad heavy.
Here is the billet as a stave now.
Tips
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08009.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08012.jpg)
Fades on out.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08010.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08011.jpg)
Crap, Sorry you cant read the calipers very well. I was trying to show how I left everything a bit heavy.
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Now to reduce the stave a bit and floor tiller it to where I can bend it to the relfex I want. I do this with card scrapers. You will kill yourself trying to sand Ipe. Its some hard stuff.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08008.jpg)
I keep reducing the limbs just enought to get them floor tillered and to where I can induce reflex. I dont want to take off much wood. Id rather it be overly thick than too light. Ill do the rest of the work on the limbs when I tiller.
Now for the bamboo. Agian, I had already cut the bamboo close to size with my band saw and took no pics of the raw boo. From the band saw, I went to the belt sander and flatened the boo. Actually, i barrel tappered it.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08015.jpg)
Heavy 1/8 at midline
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08017.jpg)
Down to 1/16" at tips.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08016.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08008.jpg)
I keep reducing the limbs just enought to get them floor tillered and to where I can induce reflex. I dont want to take off much wood. Id rather it be overly thick than too light. Ill do the rest of the work on the limbs when I tiller.
Now for the bamboo. Agian, I had already cut the bamboo close to size with my band saw and took no pics of the raw boo. From the band saw, I went to the belt sander and flatened the boo. Actually, i barrel tappered it.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08015.jpg)
Heavy 1/8 at midline
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08017.jpg)
Down to 1/16" at tips.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08016.jpg)
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So now boo and stave are ready to glue. Whoops, forgot to rotate the pic. My bandsaw is not laying on the floor. lol.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08001.jpg)
Now to do a mock run before I glue up to make sure I can get the bend I want. Before I do so, I have to go make some blocks with the amount of reflex I want. So I take some old stock and measuer 2 1/2" and cut it out. This way, I can support the tips and get a 1 3/4" reflex. It will make more sense when you see the pic. the bowwood is already 3/4, so I had to go and extra 1 3/4"so I can get 1 3/4" reflex. I want so much reflexbecause after tillering, im hopeing to keep 1 1/2" of relfex.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08014.jpg)
Ill show the mock up so you can get an idea of what im doing with these blocks. I place these blocks 70" apart on a straight 2x4. I mark a midline on the 2x4 and place the bow, belly side down. I support the tips on these bocks of wood and clamp the bow down to the 2X4 at midline. I measured in 12" from the tips to put clamps to pull the rest of the limb closer to the 2x4. Here is the mock up.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08020.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08021.jpg)
It looks good, so off to the glue up.
Before glueing up, I want to deal with that hole. To fix this, I can do several things. One being; drill it out and plug it with a wooden plug. Or I can mix up some epoxy and thickener and fill it in. Im going to go with the epoxy trick. I took bow grip 100 (which will work great because im going to bake this bow) and mix in saw dust from the stave that I collected from the belt sander, as well with some small curls from the scraper.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08019.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08026.jpg)
And here she is all filled up. I cleaned the rest of the epoxy up with aceton, leaving the plug thick. It will be smoothed out durng the tillering and finishing.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08001.jpg)
Now to do a mock run before I glue up to make sure I can get the bend I want. Before I do so, I have to go make some blocks with the amount of reflex I want. So I take some old stock and measuer 2 1/2" and cut it out. This way, I can support the tips and get a 1 3/4" reflex. It will make more sense when you see the pic. the bowwood is already 3/4, so I had to go and extra 1 3/4"so I can get 1 3/4" reflex. I want so much reflexbecause after tillering, im hopeing to keep 1 1/2" of relfex.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08014.jpg)
Ill show the mock up so you can get an idea of what im doing with these blocks. I place these blocks 70" apart on a straight 2x4. I mark a midline on the 2x4 and place the bow, belly side down. I support the tips on these bocks of wood and clamp the bow down to the 2X4 at midline. I measured in 12" from the tips to put clamps to pull the rest of the limb closer to the 2x4. Here is the mock up.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08020.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08021.jpg)
It looks good, so off to the glue up.
Before glueing up, I want to deal with that hole. To fix this, I can do several things. One being; drill it out and plug it with a wooden plug. Or I can mix up some epoxy and thickener and fill it in. Im going to go with the epoxy trick. I took bow grip 100 (which will work great because im going to bake this bow) and mix in saw dust from the stave that I collected from the belt sander, as well with some small curls from the scraper.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08019.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08026.jpg)
And here she is all filled up. I cleaned the rest of the epoxy up with aceton, leaving the plug thick. It will be smoothed out durng the tillering and finishing.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Burnie000/IpeboobuildalongJuly08027.jpg)