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Title: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Lehtis on April 14, 2020, 10:06:53 am

Hello again from Finland!
Along the "Corona II" bow I was in parallel making another bow also. This has also ca. 5 mm bamboo and bulletwood slices but now on top of osage. The belly is made of four pieces of osage. First I made two billets from scarp osage gluing the parts so that the joint runs vertically to the back of the bow. The billets were glued to stave with V-voint at handle area. Then I found a bad knot in the lower limb so I cut some 30 cm away from both limbs and glued lemonwood pieces with V-joint as replacement. The laminates were glued to stave with Smooth-On epoxy. Then, as usual, bandsawing and rasping formed this stick to bow shape. I made nocks and arrow plate from bulletwood and fine tuned the bow to 83 lbs @ 28". I wrapped some dacron to secure the osage-lemonwood joints in both limb ends. I found also a couple of knots while rasping the stave so I used some dacron to secure those spots also. Several layers of TruOil, leather handle and dacron string finalized the bow.

I named this bow as "12 Pieces Stick" because of it´s made of 12 wooden or wood like pieces: 4 x Osage & 2 x Lemonwood on belly, 2 x Bulletwood in core, bamboo back plus nocks and arrow plate from bulletwood.

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Lehtis on April 14, 2020, 10:08:21 am

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Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Lehtis on April 14, 2020, 10:09:39 am

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Post by: Lehtis on April 14, 2020, 10:11:03 am

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Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Del the cat on April 14, 2020, 10:11:46 am

Nice job, interesting save with the knot problem :)
Handsome bow
Del

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Lehtis on April 15, 2020, 08:19:37 am

Thanks, Del!

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: BowEd on April 15, 2020, 08:37:02 am

Very nice work again Lehtis showing details of the build.Making it must have been like putting together a puzzle.It's a bow for sure.
Do you use a hot box to cure the smooth-on?

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: bjrogg on April 15, 2020, 08:44:36 am

Another nicely done bow sir.
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: silent sniper on April 15, 2020, 08:45:19 am

Pretty neat! Nice job as usual!
-Taylor

Title: Re: Bamboo-Bulletwood-Osage Orange ELB Stylish Bow - "12 Pieces Stick"
Post by: Lehtis on April 15, 2020, 11:00:33 pm

BowEd : No hot box, just time. I was forced to use SmoothOn because of Unibond800, which I have normally been using, had got old and solidified during storage. Uni is not available here and must be ordered from USA and that takes some time, shipping cost is not cheap and on top that custom fee must be paid to get it over the boarder.