My best stave so far.....

[blackhawk]

I love the bend resistance in locust...and yes if you can keep it as healthy as possible it will make a smoking fast bow...you know executing design and tiller are the KEY to unlocking locusts awesome potential...I love black locust hope you have enough width for 5" of starting setback ...that's a lot for locust,and the most I'll go with it

[Red Tailed Hawk]

come on pics!!!! This sounds like a sweet one.

[soy]

come on pics!!!! This sounds like a sweet one.

X2

[mikekeswick]

So here it is (finally!!), black locust reflex deflex recurve , 51lbs @ 26, suede handle from my ex girlfriends horse riding chaps, cocobolo overlays, round horn arrowpass, finished with a 'customised' mix of oils.....and boy oh boy is she fast fast fast!
The limbs are 1 3/4 out of the fades for 6 inches or so then tapers into 1 inch and then to 3/8ths for the nocks.
I'll do a chrono test later on today 

[nathan elliot]

You mean your ex girlfriend is walking around with a handle shape hole in her chaps?! About the bow though, I can see why you said it was your best stave! Really clean looking, you really did it justice! Is this one for keeps?

[mikekeswick]

Hehe! No, one day she said 'can you use these?' 'yup' was the reply!
Yes I think this one is a keeper, it shoots soooo well you barely even know you've let go of the string 

[Del the cat]

Nice one Mike, I always think 50# is a good useable draw weight and she's pretty too
Del

[dwardo]

Great profile and full draw Mike very nice!

[blackhawk]

Cool...looks smooth to me

[Pappy]

Good looking bow,should be smooth and fast.
  Pappy

[Badly Bent]

That is one smoking hot curvy locust bow there. Real nice and no doubt a pleasure to shoot.

[lesken2011]

Nice bends on that one!

[johnfolchetti]

Beautiful......

[richardzane]

hey Mike,
THAT is a real beauty for sure. I'd be totally unnerved doing that much extreme steam bend at the tips,
but your end result is awesome.

[Carson (CMB)]

That looks like a sweet shooting bow.  It is nice when they finish up shooting like that.   Very nice work.