Last night I got home and pulled out the material for this bow and got started.

Here are the materials Ill be using. Ipe board, bodarc post, a bamboo pole, and a whitetail deer antler.



First thing I did is split the bamboo. Bamboo will naturaly split (which I dont like), so I found one of the natural splits and followed it with a knife.



Now to flatten the piece I cut out of the pole. Ill do it free hand on the belt sander.




I keep up with the thickness by using my calipers and measuring between the nodes. I keep the middle 1/8" thick and tapper it to 1/16 thick at the tips. Once I have the boo flat, I simply tapper it by making passes over the belt sander in a progressive order. Sand up to the first node, then lift the boo and start agian going up to the second node, lift and start agian until I hit the middle. I do this on both sides and keep up with the thickness as I go with my calipers.