Sand paper tillering.

[El Destructo]

                                                      Nope......sandpaper in Your Hand!!!
                                                                           

[radius]

yeah, i save that pleasure for the final tune-up...making it all smooth and pretty...what do i look like i'm retired?!?!?!?

[El Destructo]

Hey.....being Retired ain't such a Bad thing......I plan on doing that here before too long.........and moving over by Pappy somewhere near Paris Tennessee....in Gods Country USA!!!

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Sand paper on a strick ?   how does that work ?

I like the slow process of using handtools, just part of the beayty IMO

[radius]

sand paper on a stick: you know:  a power sander!

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

HOO, I see, ...don't even know how those guys look

[uwe]

...and they make the tool dump.
...

uwe, do you mean 'jump' for 'creating a washboard surface' ??

Sorry, didn`t look into the dictionary! I mean: the small gridparts make the tools blunt.
Regards

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Now uwe, is that your experiance ? or are you just quoting other people's writings ?

If that's your experiance, that's O.K. but I can tell you how to get the best out of your tools (if you're using a scraper)

If you're just quoting someone else, I tell you what, that is happening so often nowadays, and to be honest with you it's quite annoing

[Eric Krewson]

I use a cheap $16 Chinese orbital sander from wally world to do my final tillering, usually with 220 grit paper. I like the stick on sheets of sand paper even though this sander is made for the clamp in sheets. I stick on a sheet, wear it out and then heat the stuck on sheet with my heat gun to get it off cleanly.

The best thing about these orbital sanders is they will get all the washboard dips off the belly of your bow left from previous aggressive scrapers. You do have to go over the bow with a good hand sanding to get rid of the tiny circles left by the orbital sander. They only show up after you put the first coat of finish on, just like every other tiny tool mark you may have missed.

[uwe]

Now uwe, is that your experiance ? or are you just quoting other people's writings ?

If that's your experiance, that's O.K. but I can tell you how to get the best out of your tools (if you're using a scraper)

If you're just quoting someone else, I tell you what, that is happening so often nowadays, and to be honest with you it's quite annoing

Sorry, but a simple knife gets dull by the small gridparts. Didn`t know that you already noticed it and I didn`t want to annoy you, but could it be that even others are reading this thread and they like to get some info?
Regards Uwe

[StanM]

I've noticed in my archery class that some of the students go thru sandpaper like lightning, while I can do more than one bow with a quarter sheet.  Best I can tell is that they are pushing way too hard on the sandpaper, especially with the coarser grits, removing some of the grit which I guess could be embedded in the wood 

Kinda funny, but I sharpen almost all of my woodworking tools with a simple jig I made and sandpaper.  I think it's a great way to get things sharp, didn't know it could also get them dull 

Stan

[1/2primitive]

I hardly use any sandpaper on my bows. I use a scraper for my final tillering, and just go over the whole bow with about 220 grit to smooth it before I out the finish on it. I finish all the sanding I'll do an a bow in about 5 minutes.
    Sean

[Badger]

   I guess my favorite tool is the scraper on most woods. I keep a rasp and some 60 grit sandpaper handy to smooth out washboards. I notice different bows respond different to different tools. Scraper, rasp, spokeshave, draw knife and some sandpaper will almost certainly get the job done on any wood I can think of. Steve

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Yeah Sean, I've heard of bowyers that do that with scraper, I'm not yet good enought to be able to shape, keep the taper consistent and round the cornes properly with the scraper, ....sand paper gives me that.

uwe, I can't comment on kives, I use a scraper and I have no problems of it getting dull because of the using of sand paper