Making the Wing Bows
Posted Feb. ’11
A stew pot, an angelfood cake pan (my wife is still wondering where it went) and some 2″ PVC and you have a nice little steamer for small stock. We steamed one end of the bow at a time, and put it in the form overnight. We started with some ash that didn’t work out so well as you can see in the third photo.
Well if at first you don’t succeed, ……… start over with some better air dried ash. A friend cut this lumber out of a tree he had taken down a couple of years ago.
A few passes through the 40″ band saw, the joiner and planer and we had the stock we needed.
This time we chose to do the shaping after we kurf sawed the ends to be bent and then steam bent them with the inter-leaf strips in place. After forming and attaching a backing board to the already formed and glued bow, we were ready to shape it on the router with the tool shown.
Fitting the finished product to the lower wing. We are quite proud of the way it came out. Nice work Roger!
