I did a little online research and mostly based this bow off of this
article. I'd like to say I built it totally abo but I didn't. I used a hatchet I got from my great grandmother and a wood rasp that I got in a trade on here. Of course I sanded it down with rough and fine sand paper... life is too short to look at the grit
This bow is made of hackberry and is 53 inches long. Can't wait to break into my other staves now that most of the hackberry is gone.
String is made from Agave fibers. Making strings sucks!
I started out with this stave and took it down with the hatchet.
Here it is unbraced
... and braced
Side nock
Full Draw
Now I was having some hard time finding out how the natives attached the string. I could tell for the nocked part there was some kind of loop knot. I used a sliding knot so when it was braced the knot closed around the nock. For the bottom I kind of made up a knot where I basically just centered the string and wrapped it up so it would slip. No nocks or anything on the lower limb.
I also wasn't sure how these types of bows were normally tapered. I followed Half eye's build along but I had a hard time finding a picture anywhere online of a bend in the handle bow from the front.
EDIT: For the upper loop I used a
perfection loop.
Any and all input is welcome just keep in mind I worked hard on this.
