The backstory: I'm at Liquidation World, snooping through a bin of sturdy broomsticks. Wife: "You're looking for one to make a bow out of, aren't you." Me: "Uh...."
My builder friend Eric suggests the wood may be maple. I really don't know for sure. The bow is 17#@21", and if memory serves, is 46" T2T. After I confirmed that the broomstick could be tillered, I wondered what to do with it. I decided to give it to the kid a few doors down, just because he's friendly and always greets me through the screened window when I walk by and he's careful and gentle with my little wiener dog. So I grabbed some underspined straightened tomato stakes and made him some arrows too. Moulted goose feathers, and painted chopstick blunts.
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Kieran was having trouble keeping the arrow on the string, so his sister stepped in for the "full" draw shot:
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I have a video of Kieran giving it the ol' college try, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8n5tNzSvwAnd a video of me trying her out myself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFytmLl74iM