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Ok so after finishing off the "Plywood" riser bow Friday night.

I decided to take the weekend off.

So this morning I go out to the shop to clean it up and got looking at the woods I have and got to thinking, (I know that can be dangerous)" I can make a really nice riser with a combo of these woods":D

The next think I knew the shop was not clean;)and I had all these strips.



They are from right to left.
Leopardwood, Yellow Heart, Purple Heart,Yellow Heart, Bubinga, Yellow Heart,Purple Heart, Yellwo Heart and Bubinga.

So then I decided to cut some more for a Parralell center strip.



Purple Heart, Yellow Heart and Bubinga.

I got them epoxied up and are now in the heat box:D

I think this riser will be for a Take Down Long Bow.

Which I will do another build a long.

Starting with makingthe form to the finished bow.;)

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And it will be named "rainbow"

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Now there ya go I had not thought up a name for it yet.

Maybe "Mark's rainbow" seeing you came up with the name:D

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As long as we don't put "bright" after it, I am cool with it.

Sitting here thinking about my knot or hole in my yew bow. Think I have came up with a plan. Put crazy glue in for it to run into the little cracks, and fill the main hole with 60min epoxy and yew sawdust. Hope it works.

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Mate.

If it was me I would be more inclined to put some longer setting epoxy into it. Maybe some Smooth On,

I have a couple of cans here with a little left in them, if you want them let me know.

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I tell ya, your a machine! Looking forward to the pics!:)

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Well it's not like I have a full time job that keeps me away from this for 8 hours a day:D

I will post some pics of the finished block then will probably be looking for limb color suggestions:D

At this stage I am looking at Zebrawood for the front of the limbs and no idea for the back of the limbs:):D

But will wait and see how the block turns out before making the final choice.[8D]

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Here is the main block all glued up.



After cleaning up some of the excess glue I marked a center line and carefully cut along the line.



No matter how carefull you are there will be some rough ness that needs to be sanded out.



After sanding and making sure everything is square I laid the center accent stip in and measured the height of the block I need it to be 2 1/2"



As you can see I had to add another strip of Yellow Heart to get the height, I had to sand off more than I tought I would.
Here it is all glued up about to go into the heat box for 4 hours.



At this stage I am not too concerned about the excess glue on what going to be the front and back of the riser as there is very little of those areas that will not be cut out when I cut the riser shape what will be there will be sanded away anyway when I do the shaping;)

I think this is going to turn out to be an outstanding color riser:D

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Ok, little confused. Your riser/handle section will have laminations both towards the shooter and perpendicular? Never seen that done before.

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Mark.

Another way to look at it vertical and horizontal.

Me neither thats why I decided to do it:);)

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Should be enormously strong. Thats good. That lepardwood is good looking stuff. Good you can show it off.

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Yes it is mate, I was throughly impressed with how it turned out as an overlay on Greg's bow.

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Just finished cutting out the rough riser shape.

From the side



From the back of the riser.



From the front.



Now there will probably be 4 hours or so of sanding to sand down to the lines and make sure everything is nice and square;)

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Got all kinds of twists going on there. Looken good.

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Whats the deal? Rainbow ain't done????

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Oh crap mate give me a chance will ya:D

I have been working on the form for the limbs and making a mock up of the riser out of pine.;)

Only ordered the lams for the limbs on Monday so it will be another week before they get here:)

Going to go with Cocobolo on the front and Walnut on the back of the limbs I am hoping they look good on "Marks Rainbow" [8D];):):D:D

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Hey, don't complain to me, Kent and you are the ones setting the pace. He probably has built 5 bows in the last few days.

I took 30 scrapes off each limb last night on my yew ELB. And then got into watching some sync diving in the olympics last night. Not that it interested me, but more I was amazed it was actually a sport.

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Hmmmmmmm yeah ok I believe you[8D]:):D

So you got the scrapper made ok then?

I will post some pics here in a little bit of the pine mock up riser, I am still not 100% happy with it but getting close;)

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I am using cabinet scrapers from woodcraft. Kent never tought me how to burnish saw blades.:D

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Well that was not very nice of him[8D]:):D

Here is the pine mock up of the riser.
I will have to wait till I get the limbs made before I go any further.

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Holy cow, Russ, you are the man of patience. Us younguns just go in wild with a bandsaw. Tear stuff up and vow not to do it again. You on the other hand make mock ups out of pine. Most of us would have done the mockup on the real deal. And laughed or cried later.

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Mark.

I would much rather screw up a $5 piece of pine than $50 worth of hardwood;)( I am a cheap ass:D)

Besides that I am not really sure of what I am going to do as far as riser shape goes so I just play around with pine untill I get something I like:)

This is mock up riser number 3 :D

I think I will be narrowing down some more in a couple of places so it is not so "bulky" looking[8D]gotta make sure the end result is top notch;)

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And not to mention good ole pine is pretty darn nice to rasp.