Well, here she is- my Sweetie
. I built her on Saturday, along with some arrows to go with her. Thing is, she's made of elm, and like any good woman, is fickle about how you go about her- so my hand tools were set aside til the very last. I had to use my father's power tools on this one, everything from a belt sander to a saber saw. Sheesh. Oh well, I was suprised that despite all the trouble of working it, and my inexperience with power tools, she needed minimal tillering and met weight after one piking.
Now for the specs. She's elm, 64 1/2" long, 1 1/2" wide tapering to lightened 3/4" tips. She was about an inch thick tapering to about half and inch or so at the tips, and for the true earning of her name, she's a smoothe as silk 75# at 26". She's my first heavy weight hunting bow, and I was suproised at how easily I could manage her (and shooting with Howard Hill's split vision, I can actually shoot with some accuracy). Despite being so heavy, she is easy to draw, probabaly do to the 3" of set she took. he has a slightly rounded belly, not as much as I would have liked to experiment, but enought ot give it a nice feel in hand. She slings a heavy aromatic cedar arrow hard and actually put my sourwood blunt through a board
.Being heavier (physically) she is very stable, and her 64" length is neither cumbersome nor stressed- I'm really, really pleased. I put on several coats of linseed and fuinished her off with a rubbing down of candle wax (it's all I had
). The tips have some felt on them to help quiet some of the creaking from the string and the handle is an old t-shirt wrapped on with some thread. She earned the spot right below my sinew-backed hickory on my bow rack- in only three days
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