Potowotami Replica

[YewArcher]

Here is the Potowotami Replica that some of you saw a preview of in the vice on the other thred. Just got her finished up this evening thanks to bad weather and canceled flights!

The Potowotami tribe is from north east Michigan.

Specs:
Ash selfbow
Lenght=60" (I cheated here a bit as the original is 54". The fellow who will be shooting this bow will want a longer draw))
Width=1.25 at grip 1 5/15" scallop
Weight = 50#@27"
String: Linen
String Follow: .75" when just unstrung. perfetly flat when rested.

Unbraced side profile:


Belly


Back



Braced


Scallop close ups. On some of these you can see the emearld ash borere damage. It does not effect the bow.










Bottom Nock


Top nock


Braced nocks...notice the knots




Close up of dogwood shoot arrows and trade points


Full draw


This was a really fun bow to make. Its always nice to take a break from sinewd bows and make a simple selfbow. I also liked working with Ash. Its a nice wood and I am very pleased with the overall stringfollow this bow took. .75 just unbraced and creeping back to flat within a few minutes is pretty good for a rather short white wood bow. This stave also had abut a 125 degree propeller twist and was very snakey. Shows ya what can be done with heat. This style of bow really calls for a nice straigt profile. She shoots very good. I may make another for myself one of these days. I cannot even guess what the orignal makers put the scallops in for except maybe for decoration. Any insite would be apriciated.

Thanks for looking!

SJM

[Jbell]

WOW! That is a beauty. Tiller looks really good, nice arc. Scallops look pretty cool also. Job well done!

[mullet]

  Very nice bow.You are making some nice replicas.I'm with you,it seems like if anything the scallops would be on the other side of the bow.That way you could at least get closer to a center shot.

[YewArcher]

Thanks guys.
Actually the bow is 1.25" all the way with outh the scallops. Alomots pictire that scallpps are attached meaning that the center of the string tracks throth the center of the 1.25" main bow. So no closer to center on that side. Good thought though!

SJM

[330bull]

That is insane, crazy, and sooooo coooool!  I love it!

[jignfrog]

Very nice bow. I like the tiller and the the design. Good job

Ron

[david w.]

nice bow I like the scallops

[Dane]

What a beautiful bow. I actually like the looks of this one to the last one you showed us, and that one was special as well. I always feel you could slip one of your bows into an anthropology museum display and no one would be the wiser.

Dane

[medicinewheel]

VERY NICE!!!! this is one i really would like to see for real!!! - liked the looks of these bows when i first X saw one pictured. is it an extra effored for tillering to have these scallops on??

but i'm also impressed of how you managed to have this many pictures in one post and how you got the words in between and underneath! ... and i'm sure not the onlyone impressed by that 

frank

[AndrewS]

A real fantastic bow, yew archer!

[Hillbilly]

Very Cool.  Perfect tiller, too. I have one of those scalloped Seneca bows on my "when I get around to it" list.

[Pappy]

Cool bow,tiller looks right on.Mighty fine bow.
   Pappy

[GregB]

I had never heard of or seen one of these bows. I would have thought it risky to cut across the grain with the scallops like that for fear of a splinter popping up. I guess not...

Great looking bow, with a good tiller. I've never had good results with ash, this bow turned out really nice!

[jamie]

man your doing some great work. wanted to build that one for a long time now. peace

p.s. the fletching on the wraps looks mean . have you shot those without losing flesh. lol

[SimonUK]

Theory number one concerning the scallops:

If the tip of the bow broke off, the scallop below it could act as a nock and you wouldn't go home hungry.