I'm putting together my first black locust penobscot.
I have a thirty inch piece of my densest wood ready to reflex for the back bow, but I don't know how long to make the main bow. I thought seventy inches should work, but maybe that's too long?
I'm planning on doing my blended back nocks, the main bow stringing in the outermost knock and the back bow stringing just inside via wood left on as a belly self nock. Sound good?
This all means stiff tips for the main bow. I was thinking a slightly formed main bow handle with an almost-but-not-quite-bendy handle for the back bow held on with sinew (I'll need to look at applying sinew again before I so that). I was thinking forty five pounds for the main bow, add twenty or thirty with the back bow.
