Here's what I got up to at this years Tennessee Classic.
I bought the blank from David Knight
www.primalneedarchery.com (hence the name) on Friday at the the Classic. The Bamboo backed Ipe blank came glued up with no tips, totally square & only floor tillered. This takes a huge chunk of the complicated stuff out of the equasion for beginners like me! Over the course of the weekend, well, Friday & Saturday, I had to try & beat the flooding home on Sunday morning, with the help of David, Alex Roché (Bear), Wade, Pat B & others I had a shootable bow. Unfinished, but shootable. The bow was tillered to 66#@32" to give me a safe margin of error for my 30" draw. At 30" it's bang-on 60#
Once I got home & dried out, I applied a coat of Medium Brown leather dye to the bamboo & overdyed the tips & riser with black. I've applied 11 layers of Tru-Oil to give a ridiculously glossy fnish! The riser is wrapped inflat leather thonging dyed various, random shades of brown & treated with neetsfoot oil. The arrow rest is made from one of the tips from the little spike buck I shot last year.A muzzleloader kill, but my first ever whitetail buck!
Hope you like the pics as much as I'm enjoying the bow!
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Glossy!
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Top tip....
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Bottom tip....
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Drawn to 30" (That's a 32-1/2" arrow!)
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