Elm RD Bow (not for BOM)

[Marc St Louis]

I made this bow for an aboriginal woman that lives in a neighbouring city.  She wants to hunt Deer, from her back porch  , and even though her friends tried to talk her into a wheel bow she wanted to hunt with wood.  I wanted to make her something that had good handling characteristics and good performance.  I was initially going to make her a recurve, she liked the looks of them at an event I where I had a display.  I decided to make her an RD bow instead because they are easier to brace and more user friendly.  The bow is 60" long with 1 1/2" wide limbs and pulls 42# @ 26".  Here's some pictures.

[sailordad]

Marc,i have always admired your work
but for some reason this simple little bow speaks voulmes to me
very very nice bow and incredible craftsmanship as always

of all the bows of yors i have seen on this site,for some odd reason this one is my fav so far
simple, yet elegant
what lady could ask for more
once again
very nice bow

[profsaffel]

Nice bow Marc.

I can appreciate the major bowyers on here for at least one thing that they contribute. Besides all your contributions to the PA community, its this style bow that you are the master of no doubt.

[Del the cat]

V clean, simple, and pretty. I like the sculptural lines of the handle.
Del

[RyanY]

Ditto. I'm hoping to make one like this in my future. Hopefully it will turn out half as good. Great job.

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys

[Dean Marlow]

Marc very nice bow you have there. The lady you built it for will be all smiles. Dean

[Josh]

Very nice Marc!     I am always amazed at the amount of reflex you are able to keep when you construct one of your bows... How much did this one start with and end up keeping? 

[Barrage]

Nice bow Marc.

[Justin Snyder]

Nice looking bow Marc, I'm sure she will be happy with it. What kind of wood are the tip overlays?

[Pat B]

Nice bow, Marc and beautiful full draw curves. 

[Marc St Louis]

I think it started with 4" of reflex and kept about 2"

The handle has a lam of Bloodwood to finish and the overlays are also Bloodwood, in the hopes she draws blood with the bow.  The string is also red FF.  I put a leather shelf on the bow and a white leather wrap to finish it up.  I made her 3 target arrows and 3 hunting arrows to go with the bow, she's already lost 1 of the target arrows 

[George Tsoukalas]

It's a beauty, Marc and well done. Jawge

[Gordon]

That's a sweet bow Marc. I don't normally care for cut-in shelves, but I really like the way you did it.

[Jesse]

very nice.