Sneak peak at a snaky challenge bow!

[huisme]

I've been doing more and more of the work on my bows with my favorite machete, and I decided I was going to see just how much of the tillering I could do on a piece of vine maple. I was going to determine my success by the number of times I had to string/unstrung/re-string the bow before cleaning the surface with a rasp, and it came out to the low brace, perfect tiller, full brace with just a shadow of a hinge, and one more full brace as a tillered bow. I scored a three 

I did most of the tillering via floor tillering, pushing the limbs against the ground, but did no such thing after the first stringing as part of the challenge. After cleaning the surface there hasn't been any change in tiller, so I'm going to sand her down and give her some shine as soon as I can.



The string is four strands of fast flight plus with some left over B50 to save the knocks. It's the most not-primitive-looking string I've made, I think 

[koan]

Cool!!

[DGF]

Looks cool! Did you say 4 strands of FF+?    What type of poundage you getting out of this bow?

-Dan

[richardzane]

will be nice to see it all finished up!

[huisme]

Last I checked it topped my fifty pound scale at 24", that's the best I can do to guess around sixty pounds since my good scale broke I'm sure the vine maple would have been cut to pieces if I hadn't put a bunch of dacron in the loop and timber hitch.