Another Experiment

[Ray]

Aint that the truth. The steel wool does like to get  into little depressions.

[PacificNWhunter]

Looks great ray!

[Todd_ID]

Looks great Ray!  I wish I had the kojones to step into a project like that!  I know I've got the time, skills, desire and attention to detail, but getting started is a whole other story.  Where'd you start when you didn't know anything about it?

I'm not sure what I'd do with it once I got it done other than play around for now.  I don't think I'm quite ready to give up all I've worked to learn about compounds quite yet.  Maybe if I get lucky and can win the World Championship this year, then there'd be little left to do but make the sport more challenging and fun. 

Either way, the handmade bow harvest has to be equal to the trout caught on a hand made rod and a hand tied fly in some ways, and I know the feeling of high achievement from that!

[Ray]

I watched my frient Jay put together countless bows when I have been over there reloading or just shootin' the breeze. He has helped me and has some tools which make things go fast. (Band saw, drum sander, belt sander, pneumatic sander) All of which might not necessarily be required. I would say that band saw and belt sander are pretty useful and were key to making this project move fast. You might be able to substitute everything but the band saw. Maybe a farriers rasp with time and muscle. I also picked up some of the ideas for this bow online. Building this sort of bow is a bit different than a self bow which would be from a raw tree.

Just like reloading there are tons of sources to get information. Here's a good article http://tillertree.com/tutorials/bows/making-a-bamboo-backed-ipe-bow-by-sam-harper

I suppose once you decide on what the project is going to be then you can know which tools will be most helpful.