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I'm here, busy working on the bow. Now to catch you all up on the progress, this part takes longer than the actual work. So back to work on EL-cheapo posting progress.

Hope the wife is improving and healing well, give us an update when you can.

Well I have taken the weekend off, hopefully we can resume next week. I do have more progress to post but got too much study to do. Got to teach Sunday school and preach twice tomorrow.

I see, I was thinking maybe that you had it back and that those were your other bows.

Real nice. But have not introduced the two others standing on the right and left in one of the pictures, what are those?

Not much left to do on the riser now but to take it out for a test drive. Lay it on the form, clamp it down watching your ends that they come to the desired length lines drawn on your form. Mark your center from the center line on your form. How do you know it is actually the center of your riser, w...

Now to sand the upper sides, these ends must be sanded or feathered down to a paper thin edge if you don't want to have gaps at the ends of your riser, I don't recommend these gaps so take the time to get them right. Your wood must separate with some going under and some over these edges. Be careful...

Notice I said in the last post to saw to the outside edges of the lines, now to sand on down to the lines getting a smoother and straighter surface. And yes I will later make it rough again with my hacksaw blade just like I did on the lams and glass. Be sure your table is square, use a square to che...

Then you saw out the outside edges of the lines.

Now that I have the line on the bottom drawn I will sit down and make lines for the upper part of the riser while the quality control dog watches on intently.. If you can see it you will understand what I am doing on this riser. I am making lines to cut out on the upper side of the riser also, my gl...