Side tillered Ojibwa / 60# @ 27 (Not for BOM)

[jturner]

Nice bow, too bad the other one blew but at least you got a really cool action shot of it. I like how the string is pretty much froze in place but no bow to be seen.

[radius]

i think Parnell made a bow like this last summer...again, though:  what kind of wood is it, my friend?

[Hagar]

Great job!  Nice looking bow Rich.

[half eye]

Fellas,
       Sorry for not saying in the beginning....it's made from red elm.  The little bow was made like this one but really scaled down like you can see it didn't work very well....couldn't have been the fact that it was overdrawn just a tad I'm sure
       Will post a pic of this bow along side the "corpse".

[half eye]

Here is this bow...along with the "ghost"

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[Josh]

that sucks the little one blew man, it looked cool too.  Well... at least you have a cool pic of it in action!     -josh

[medicinewheel]

frank I'm guilty of just looking at the pictures Not always but too often

Aah Dana, ...honestly: there is no such thing as guilt...! 

[medicinewheel]

Maybe I missed this, too: what wood is it? Hickory??

[Grunt]

Just seeing that bow makes me want to get going on one. Nice paint, the red and green contrast each other. Did you use quartersawn?

[Josh]

Maybe I missed this, too: what wood is it? Hickory??

Red Elm   

[half eye]

Grunt,
       Ya it is, it was a piece left over from ripping some backers for a friend....the board gets to 1/2 to 3/4 and the old blind guy gets his fingers out of there....this was one of those left-overs.

[Postman]

great looking bow! love the scallops and paint job - any idea what they used to dye the original?

[half eye]

Postman,
        I believe this bow was "post-contact" and the colors were probably trade items. They might be Native paints as well since the Ojibwa traded as far as the western plains and east all the way to Montreal and Ottawa. But the museum lists the color as "paint" so I do not think the colors are natural dyes. The Museum further states that the age of the bow is between 1865 and 1900.

[Postman]

Thanks for the info!

[zenmonkeyman]

Astounding work as always, Half eye.  Is there any tendency for the bow to twist?  Being asymmetrical side to side?