Hickory backed hickory, pulling 90# @ 25" so far...

[toomanyknots]

knots, bow looks very good - maybe a little more on the left. If you work a little in green stalk handle will still remain hard and reduce the impact to the handshok.



George

Thank you George, and thank you for the advice. I am actually about done with this bow at the moment, I just need to sand burnish and wax it real quick. I have just been a bit busy lately (in other words, lazy, ).

how do i go about picking up one of your bows??

Haha, I am going to take that as a compliment,  .

[toomanyknots]

I finished this bow up a little bit ago and thought I would post a couple more pictures. It came out at about 125# or so at 32". Regarding most peoples opinion on hickory as a belly wood, I only ended up with 1 1/8" inch set on each limb, which for a heavier weight bow I am very happy. And this bow was not heat treated. I am convinced hickory will take the compression forces of a medium heavy weight warbow with no problems. I did not baby this bow during tillering in the least, and it sat static on my wooden notch tiller tree many times, which IMO is one of the most set inducing things you can do to a poor innocent bow during tillering. There is no fulldraw picture, as I am a wuss and can't draw anything over 100# or so at 32" anymore,  . Tiller is basically the same as the previous full draw pictures though.

[adb]

Very nice! Love the nocks. Nice smooth transition to the limb. I'd love to see a full draw. Stand on the string and pull! I don't have much good to say about hickory as belly wood, but you did awesome. Brace pic looks good. Did you chase a ring on the backing material, or is it 1/4 sawn wood?

[toomanyknots]

Very nice! Love the nocks. Nice smooth transition to the limb. I'd love to see a full draw. Stand on the string and pull! I don't have much good to say about hickory as belly wood, but you did awesome. Brace pic looks good. Did you chase a ring on the backing material, or is it 1/4 sawn wood?

Thank you adb!  There are a couple fulldraws if you go to the first page of this thread, I believe. The backing was a 1/8" slice of straight grain rift sawn. I might be able to get my wife to take another fulldraw pic while I step on the string and pull, but the tiller is basically the same. Lately I have been using the video recorder on my camera to take a video, and then go into windows media player and take a screen cap of it when the video is paused, and that seems to work ok.

[Ifrit617]

Awesome looking bow there toomany. Those horn nocks are stunning.

Jon

[toomanyknots]

Awesome looking bow there toomany. Those horn nocks are stunning.

Jon

Thank ya!

[Hrothgar]

Knots, that's a fine looking elb, and very impressive weight!

[toomanyknots]

Knots, that's a fine looking elb, and very impressive weight!

Thank ya! 

[Squirrelslayer]

hey awsome bow! i made a hickory longbow but the back was D shaped and the belly was flat. i might try it the other way around with a backing. do you by any chance live in the UK? SS

[WillS]

Man that's pretty.  I can't get over how smooth the nock transition is.  What's the bow finished with?  You mentioned wax I think, but it looks almost too shiny for a just wax finish?

[toomanyknots]

hey awsome bow! i made a hickory longbow but the back was D shaped and the belly was flat. i might try it the other way around with a backing. do you by any chance live in the UK? SS

Thank you! I'm in ohio, in the US. I think I have read that a crowned back and a flat belly is a great cross section for hickory actually. 

[toomanyknots]

Man that's pretty.  I can't get over how smooth the nock transition is.  What's the bow finished with?  You mentioned wax I think, but it looks almost too shiny for a just wax finish?

Thank you Will! Yes, it is just beeswax. If it wasn't so sunny when I took these pictures, you would probably be able to see the finish better, but because of the sun, it makes it look like it doesn't have a finish in some pictures.

[Squirrelslayer]

hey awsome bow! i made a hickory longbow but the back was D shaped and the belly was flat. i might try it the other way around with a backing. do you by any chance live in the UK? SS

Thank you! I'm in ohio, in the US. I think I have read that a crowned back and a flat belly is a great cross section for hickory actually.

yes the reason i made it like that is because i heard hickory is good in tension. SS

[Thesquirrelslinger]

how do i go about picking up one of your bows??

+1

[toomanyknots]

how do i go about picking up one of your bows??

+1

Hey squirrel, I'll send you a private message...