Big Red - 3rd Time's the Charm

in #diy5 years ago

Hey Steemers!
I finished my 3rd bow and boy is it a doozy! I'm extremely happy with how it turned out and wanted to show you some pics of the process and the final product. This isn't an instructional post, but you can see many of the steps I took to complete the bow.

I found a block of Red Heart wood and fell in love. I user it with a strip of red oak wood to make a riser block. A riser is the archery term for the handle of the bow.

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I liked the red oak, red heart combination so much I decided to glue some small pieces together for my tip overlays. Putting tip overlays on gives extra strength to the tips of the bow.

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Cut and shaped a thin 1/8" strip of red heart to be the riser overlay. Sanded and sized everything before starting the glue up.

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Now, glue and clamp.

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Next, I glued 4 layers of fiberglass to the back of the bow and glued my tip overlays on.

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Tiller Time!!!

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Now that I've got a decent tiller, I start shaping the handle. I was excited about this part because of the extra strip of red oak I put in. Look at how that worked out...

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Normally, I'd paint the fiberglass backing because it cures yellow, the color of the glue. This time, I came across a 2" roll of red oak veneer. This would allow me to cover the fiberglass with the same wood the core of the bow was made with. My mistake was gluing the riser overlay on first. Lesson learned for the next bow.

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After sanding the entire bow with 100, 120, 150, 220, & 400 grit sandpaper, I started putting coats of Danish oil on the bow. I put 5 coats on then let it dry for 2 days.

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Once oiled and dry, I put on 2 coats of polyurethane.

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I measured the draw weight, 65 pounds, and put on my maker's mark.

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Finally, lets see how it shoots!!

It feels amazing!! Thanks for following along! Any questions or comments, hit me up! See you in the feed!

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Congratulations @beatking13 This one is an amazing post. This has been upvoted and resteemed by @minnowsupporter. Continue following @minnowsupporter and participating on the challenges for more resteems and upvotes.

Awesome! Thank you so much!! I definitely will! (^_^)

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Beautiful work, you are quite the craftsman. 👏

Thank you so much!! (^_^)

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65 lb is a real man's bow. Did you tune your arrows to match?

Ha ha Thanks! My recurve bow is 60# so I used a few of those and they flew great. 400 spine with 100 grain field tips.

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What beautiful work. You could do a tutorial post, but I would still not be able to create even one little bit of this.

I watched, subbed and liked over at you tube. If you can figure out dtube you might do well there. I am on a 30 day plan to try to cross post my you tube stuff to dtube and I am not getting great votes, but I think you might have a winner.

Thank you so much!! I actually did a series of posts as a tutorial build along last month. If you scroll down my page you'll see it. I appreciate you coming by! (^_^)

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Wow! Fantastic work, man. I missed up-voting this one :(

Thank you! Don't worry, there'll be more. (^_^)

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I will be looking out!

It looks beautiful. I love the dramatic music playing in the background while you were shooting your bow.

Thank you! I also made the music myself! (^_^)

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Wow the wood combo looks amazing! Really beautiful. And great little dramatic video, nice beats :)

Thanks! I thought the woods looked great together as well!! I made the music in the video as well. I appreciate the comments! (^_^)

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Hi beatking13,

This post has been upvoted by the Curie community curation project and associated vote trail as exceptional content (human curated and reviewed). Have a great day :)

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Great job @beatking13. So proud of you.

Thank you so much! (^_^)

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Beautiful handwork, I love all hand crafted stuff and yours really deserves respect, because you not only need to create a nice piece but it should be able to work properly, the end result is beauty, I love the part of red wood integrated into the rest, beautiful brand mark!

Thank you so much! I particularly like the red heart wood working together with the red oak as well. Just gorgeous! (^_^)

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