Whenever I go to shoot a little, chances are that I'll grab this bow. It's the second bow I made when I first got started back in 06. It's been shot hundreds upon hundreds of times by several different people. I usually hear people say how smooth and quite it is. I tell people that this is my 6 dollar/5 hour bow, because that's what it cost for the board at Lowes and how long it took me to make it (I lucked out with a great floor tiller). It's 72" tip to tip, 1 1/2 wide from fades to mid-limb and tapering to 1/2 nocks. It now pulls 50# @ 29". The linen wrapping is because I saw some slight chrysals due to three small knots in the wood. It did have a linen string, but that broke saturday.
My buddy Harley finding out how a red oak board performs. He then went out and bought one. lol That's a 32" red oak arrow that also came from Lowes.
Battle scars! The bottom/right damage is from me getting a little to heavy handed with the tomahawk. The upper/left damage is from my first attempt using a tiller tree. The pulley broke and the bow shot into the air and the dent is from the bow hitting the rafters. Note the bad glue joint. Placing a weight on the riser wasn't enough in this case.
She ain't perfect, but she's mine and she's a keeper.
John
