I spent the weekend with my good buddy lebhuntfish and made massive amounts of wood shavings. Decided to try a boo cedar glue up to make some kids bows and get some experience making laminates. Goal was 30@26 to allow room for growth and never actually grow out of them.
Well, after the glue dried and before cutting the profile I decided the blank was too flexible. It wouldnt make weight after being cut out to profile. Solution? Rip a few thin belly lams of beautiful fleck white oak. Now.... I find myself wishing I hadnt. Getting the bows down to weight seems impossible even with side tillering and rounding the belly. Perhaps I should have trapped the back. However with the one tillered bkw coming at 45@26 I dont think it will get weight far enough down. So.... these bows are a fail. Gonna have to make adult bows and leanlrn my lesson. It doesn't take much cedar...
So.... this build marked a number of firsts for me....
first realnattempt at a laminate, not just trying to boo back a failed bow, first time making power lams, first time with cedar that didnt blow up, first time making a bow that is technically a failure because the weight is too high ( how often does that happen? ), and first time using white oak.
Over all, its a happy mistake.
