Link to draw video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0vmHPKa-cWell, yall were right, this wood is sssooofffttt...
. But surprisingly you
can get some decent weight out of it if ya go long enough. I had this bow pulling around 85-90 or so at 28" at first, but had problems with hinges. And then after fixing em I had problems telling myself to accept the little bends in the wood and not try to fix those as they look like hinges a little as well. This wood is annoyingly soft. The back has little marks (not hazardous to the back just annoying) from barely touching a corner while I was rasping it out, and the self nocks went from shallow servicable little nocks to deep canyons of a nock!
This wood is so soft you can take you finger nail and write your name in the wood,
. The bow is 80" nock to nock and has been pulled to around 30" I believe but my goal is around 65" at 28" for my draw. 1 7/16" wide by 1 3/16" deep at the handle. Tips are 1/2" or so. It's actually a deep bellyed narrow d cross section (Ya I know I was just asking for chrysals, I attribute that to the length
) For all my crying about the wood being soft, I can't help but admit that it looks gorgeous, but then again it looks identical to ash and I think ash can be one of the prettiest woods when finished. Kinda springy too. This is actually the first piece of any maple I have ever worked. Set is 2 1/2" roughly on both limbs so far. In my opinion it's not as horrible wood as I have heard for a very long overbuilt bow.
