Brand new hickory (pics)

[mullet]

   Sweet looking bow,Phil.

[Justin Snyder]

The tiller looks great to me also.  Fine looking bow for sure. Justin

[1/2primitive]

Yepper, I'll just say; repeat all of the comments made before, they're all well deserved.
    Sean

[Sidewinder]

Very good job. Hope the tiller on my first one turns out that good. Looks like he took his time and got it right. He has to be very satisfied with that result.Danny

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

Thanks again for all the kind words.  i saw josh today and he's got it all done. man its a thing of beauty. he really put alot of heart into this one. as he was roughing the stave out, he told me that after 8 failures, if this one didnt turn out, he was done with selfbows thank God it worked for him!
hes already looking through the stave pile in the corner for the next one i wasnt able to get any pictures today but i promise i will soon oh and josh sends his thanks to "all you fine folk" for all your encouragement.
Phil

[a finnish native]

as a famous Finnish bowmaker says for people making their first bows: Don't think about yourself making a bow, but as learning to make one.
Nice tiller btw. the right limb is bending too much near the fades for my taste but anyway. very well done.

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

as a famous Finnish bowmaker says for people making their first bows: Don't think about yourself making a bow, but as learning to make one.
Nice tiller btw. the right limb is bending too much near the fades for my taste but anyway. very well done.

yeah, we noticed that it was bending too much too, but he wanted something that would be heavy enough to hunt with it in the late season, so we opted to not try to "chase the limbs" back and forth. he just made that limb the upper limb. the way we figured it they were both bending evenly and its not showing any sign of stress more than the lower limb, so he left it that way. shoots good too, no hand shock and dead silent with thoes deflexed tips. next one he does hes gonna try to reflex the tips a bit with heat to try to get a little bit more pep.
Phil

[Wulamoc]

Nice work... It should be a real fine shooter!

[Hillbilly]

Good looking bow.

[moose palm]

Great job!! I'm glad he didn't quite.