im not too p on my wood working. what is a wood rasp?
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im not too p on my wood working. what is a wood rasp?
A wood rasp is a great deal like a metal file but it has much more coarse teeth. It performs the same function except on wood.
http://www.rutlands.co.uk/images/DKRV12.jpg
oh i see. im pretty sure we have one of those. would a draw knife work for sapling bows?
I've never done bowyering but I have done a whole bunch of wood working. It will depend on the draw knife. Canid or FVR (one of them) said you remove a small amount of wood at a time. There are different draw knives just like there are different screw drivers. Some are designed to remove a lot of wood, like a loghouse drawknife, while others are better suited to more detail work, like a chairmakers drawknife. AND, there are a multitude of different sizes and shapes with some being flat, some concave, some convex and some rounded on the horizontal (from handle to handle) called an Oxhead Inshave.
I'll let Canid or FVR address their use for bows but wanted to point out there are a lot of different types of drawknives out there and you would want to pick the right one. You might google drawknives for bowmaking to see what most bowyers use.
stanley makes a nice line of rasps called surforms:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en...ed=0CC4QrQQwAg
they are like cheese-graters for wood, and they are pretty cheap. they have replaceable faces, though they hold their edges pretty long, and the replacement faces are even cheaper. i recommend one if you can afford it [$10-15].
this is the one i have, in addition to a 4-way and some other tools:
http://base0.googlehosted.com/base_m...=95b877e&hl=en
draw-knives are awesome, but they are dangerous in new hands. i'm not good enough with one to rely on it much for delicate work, but i still plan to make one or a couple soon.
im not new to drawknives but maybe a little rough when bowmaking
I like that surform rasp. I have the little palm size and the mini and they work well. I will be getting the larger one.
Draw knives are nice, but you can get yourself in trouble with them. That is how I took off to much wood on that hickory. I went a little deep and did not realize.......oooops.
I never use a drawknife with kiln dried wood. To much opp. to mess up. On boards I always use my Stanley rasp or my wood rasp. Now my wood rasp has a course half round on one side and a med. flat on the other. I can get some wood off if I need to.
Also if you don't want to use your knife blade, a set of cabinet scrapers come in very handy.
My tool list is very minimal. Boy I miss my old bandsaw.
i have a band saw. i have tons of carpentry gear, dad used to build houses
Ah!!!!
That changes the whole story.
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Start building bows.
is there any link in perticular that will help me with spling bows?
thank you so much canid. this is really helping and im only on the first link. i knever thought of splitting the sapling:smash:
splitting is useful if the sapling is large enough to start with. you won't usually get two halves, so you can't always get two bows [that's what larger trunks are for].
i think ill go with the locust. would a table saw get the log split?
a table saw will cut the stave. that's not the same as splitting, but it's a lot more precise.
i think ill go find a nice maple instead
going to find a maple tommorrow when im done hunting. gonna use the table saw to split it. tie it to a pipe and wedge it. might make too since im supposed to leave it like that for a month or two
got me a peice of locust. got it barked and split today. ill let it dry till spring. im gonna make a few more staffs before spring. ill get a little of all woods
ot a ltlle bit ahead of my self. started working the smaller of the staves and got it looking pretty nice. but. . . i started to string it and it cracked like a twig. the bow is awaiting its burial