Hello,
i just sorta finished the bow i have been working on, its a hackberry bow,
it pulls around #45- #50 at 23"-24"
it has 2" wide limbs for halfway down the limb which then fades to 3/8 tips
and it is 53" long with fully working limbs (camera doesnt show very well) and i was planning on a sorta bend in the handle but that didnt end up happening, but i still probably could but i dont want to ruin it at the last minute
i bought the stave of le-enterprizes on eBay as the lack of bow wood in australia...
have had a couple of shots and i very pleased faster and much more forgiving than i expected.
unstrung it has less than 1.5 inches of set and a little more jus after shooting but hat goes down (string follow?) but the stave started straight so that's okay
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/2013-12-05_16-11-25_116_zps22f73ced.jpg)
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/2013-12-05_16-12-31_710_zps439a089a.jpg)
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/2013-12-05_16-13-58_414_zps9cd0fff7.jpg)
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/2013-12-05_16-14-24_77_zps52ee091d.jpg)
unstrung
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/2013-12-05_16-12-59_726_zps6d2ed9e6.jpg)
video (too me the background gives the illusion of hinges but in the mirror it looks fine to me)
![](http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l584/Spearfisherman/th_2013-12-05_16-19-47_153_zps4fbd374c.jpg)
due to the fact it cost me alot of money to get a usable piece of wood for my first proper attempt at a bow im glad it didnt break yet!
a am also wondering, this bow is unbacked and unsealed, i was going to put one layer of sinew on but it hasnt come yet and i need to shoot it properly by next sunday!" i was thinking of using some rawhide from a petstore dogbone or should i just leave it as a selfbow and finish it with some beeswax? thanks for input