White Oak/ Indian Rosewood Longbow

[doulosparachristos]

So here is my first English Longbow style creation; It's 71'' of Indian Rosewood backed with White Oak, a simple leather handle and buffalo horn tips. She is also pulling about #50@28, but  tillered to 31''. after a good round of shooting there is about 2'' of string follow ( I'm a string-follow-Nazi, so this is hard to accept) however, it goes to about an inch when rested. Until now I had never shot a ELB design, consequently, I'm totally hooked; It has a smooth draw, decent power, and pretty dang accurate. Brutal criticism accepted. Thanks

Roy

[IdahoMatt]

Very nice.  Great finish work.  I am yet to make one.  Looks like a blast...I really like how elegant the rosewood with the oak came out.  Very striking

[Badly Bent]

I cannot criticize since I've never made and english longbow but I have seen them and I think that bow of yours is very nice. Great looking bow to me and the finish work is outstanding. Thats a bow to be proud of.

[bow101]

The wood combo looks great, nice job

[Adam]

No criticism here.  You did a heck of a job on that one!

[David_Daugherty]

Very nice looking bow.  The two woods look great together.  Where do you get the buffalo horn for your tips?

[Cameroo]

Looks real nice!  If I was to nitpick, I'd say the upper limb might be bending a bit much in the inner half (and I suspect that is where the majority of your set is occurring), and not enough in the outer 1/3, but over all, that's a damn fine weapon.  Those woods look really nice together, and as mentioned, your finishing work looks excellent.

[doulosparachristos]

Thanks for the compliments, guys. I also noticed that the upper limb looks like its bending a tad too much after I posted the full draw picture, I'm not sure how I missed it during tillering; I may start using the Paint program to check my tiller. The buffalo horn came from EchoArchery.com

Roy

[adb]

I don't call a bow done until I have in the hand full draw pictures. Sometimes what you see on the tiller tree and what you see while drawing the bow by hand are not the same.

Nice bow, bye the way! I've never tried rose wood, but heard good things about it. What are your thoughts, having made one?

[mikekeswick]

Elb's needed to be tillered more elliptically.
Just think - there is a lot of thickness taper going on with these sort of bows. So as the wood gets thinner it can and should be bending more. So just think more elliptically 
As i'm tillering these sort of bows i'm looking for that first bit of set - this tells you straight away about the tiller - simply scrape/work where there is no set.
Aim for there to be none inner limb, a little midlimb and most in the outer limbs.
Beware rosewoods and wood yards.....the true rosewood is cocobolo. Many other woods are labelled rosewood too. I'm pretty sure yours isn't cocobolo, it looks like this stuff that is being made into furniture by 'fairtrade' companies. I've seen a few shops doing it over here, they buy this furntiture in from India where it's been made by workers getting paid peanuts and the wood is cheap as chips. Then sell it here for a price that we couldn't even buy the raw timber for. Fairtrade???
Anyway lovely bow - just work on the tiller of your next one and you should be able to keep set below 1 inch.

[Pappy]

Now that is a beauty,really like the contrast of the wood. Nice work.
   Pappy

[BowEd]

That sure did shine up contrasting beautifully.A pleasant bow to shoot I'm sure.

[burn em up chuck]

   very very nice

        chuck

[ErictheViking]

Great finish work on an excellent ELB. good job man

[TimPotter]

Absolutely perfect! Elegant and beautiful. I love it.