Hers a quick video.
Those look good. Little concavity too. The grooves dont need to be even that clean and straight if you use the method of filling grooves with glue.
Thanks Jere. I did my first few thin sizing coats last night. Still got a number of them to do yet. I did a dry fit on both and grooves seem to fit nice and tight. Phew! It was a test for my ocd to get this good and straight and have these grooves line up. I think I’m gonna partially fill the grooves with glue upon glue up. As far as number of size coats I gather it will be around 10-12 coats or until shiny. My hope is that by doing it this way it will fill any imperfections unseen in the grooves. Here’s a few pics. Lots shavings!
I got my grooving all sized coated and ready last night. I then glued up the horn slats to the cores of both bows. I used the yumi rope and wedges method for both. I was considering doing one with tencik but the first o e went so well that I decided to do the other the same. It will be a good test either way of this method. I’ve seen one other instance where this method was used for horn bows that were not yumi bows. I was intrigued by the process so figured I’d try it. I got the grooves to line up good I think and got good squeeze out. I put lots of glue on there to ensure if any gaps were at least filled with glue. A dry run before went good and figment was nice and solid so here’s hoping I didn’t screw it up! lol. I’ll post a video link here but please feel free to fast forward thru boring parts. I could figure out how to fast forward thru bits of it to shorten it up. Oh well. You guys will get the idea. Let me know what you think!
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Very nice complete demonstration of this process.Thanks for showing it.
The overall process time was’nt all that long yet.