Howard Hill Shooters Bulletin Board

I have a general bulletin board on the Dick Wightman home site. However, since I set up the Howard Hill Bows section of the site, I thought it might be helpful if it had its own bulletin board. If any list member gets a new bow, has a hunting success, or whatever, and wants to share pictures, this will be a place where they can be posted. The process will not be direct, as on the more complex sites, but unless the volume becomes unreasonable, if folks send me a jpeg, I can then post it here for list members to check out.

Dick

Hair on Quiver Made Over the Snowed in Holidays

Desperate for things to do while unable to do laminating in the shop due to the cold, I dug out some leftover hides and made up three of these. The pattern is an improved, one piece version of the one I made last year. The hair hide, which is brindle cow, is simply spray glued on to the regular leather quiver. I cut it slightly oversized, glued it on, then trimmed it to fit.

Rigid Oscillating Spindle/Belt Sander

I really wanted, lusted after actually, a Grizzly 6 x 80 vertical belt sander. I watched JD shape limbs on his (he has two... the is no fairness in this world...) . However, it was very large, pretty expensive at $500, and was designed to run on 220. If rewired for 110 it pulled 20 amps no load... my shop circuits aren't up to that.

This tool was recommended on one of the bowyering lists. While its belt is small, it's really impressive in action. The oscillation allows the sanding dust to clear the grit on the paper so you don't get build up... kind of like a skip tooth bandsaw blade. It removes material quite quickly and very smoothly. I'm fortunate in already having a large oscillating spindle sander, so i'll be able to keep this one set up permanently as a vertical belt sander. I used the large end yesterday for shaping the fades on my riser and it worked very well. Should be really great for limb shaping, too. Note that like everything else in the shop, it's on a roll around cabinet.

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