My first recurve ...

[akila]

Hello guys...i start this year pretty nice i could say...i wanted for a long time a recurve, and after i broke one a fiew mounth a go..( whenn i try to bend the tips), now i finaly decided to give it a try again and this is whatt it coume out.Its a honey locust  bow...saap wood on the back and heart wood on the belly.Its aboute 175cm long, it pulls 52#@ 29".I give it a balck-red finish i try to make him look ancient some how, and the strike plate is made from bone, and the overlays are cow horn.I hope you will like it...










The bow had a little deflex in the limbs..so i try to put some reflex on him before tillering but the bow come oute like it wass at the first time..so the delfex is his natural deflex....

[DanaM]

Looks like it came out quite well akila.

[Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive]

looks real good to me, did you use steam or dry heat to bend the limbs?

[akila]

Hi...sorry i forgot to mention this..i used steam..aboute 45 minutes for each tip.And i have used something metalic, to help the belly of the bow not to get the tips broken or something.It worked quite well...just small splinters that i had themm remouved later.

[Slivershooter]

Nice!

[medicinewheel]

yeah! you did well on that one!

frank

[Gordon]

That bow turned out very well indeed.

[Rich Saffold]

You did real good Akila! The couch looks comfortable as well ..

Rich

[PK]

Inspiring and natural

[Kegan]

Wish my recurves came out half that nice !

[snedeker]

Pretty cool, especially for the first completed.

Dave

[akila]

Thks a lot for your compliments...im a little sad becose it seams that i cant make some nice pictures...im not such a good photographer..the bow looks much better thenn it is in those pictures...i want to ask you all something els..do you think the tiller its good like that?? i dont realy know verry much aboute how it should be tiller a recurve bow so...i wass loking at some pictures here on the forum and i try to do the same...thks again..

[OldBow]

That is a dandy. Good work on that handle and nocks! Looking forward to seeing it for BOM voting later on.

[mamba]

Akila looks great.
Tiller looks right on IMO,but you might consider a lower brace height to reduce set in the limbs.Love the looks of this bow.

[GregB]

That recurve came out really nice! I agree with Mamba that the brace should be lower...might do some untwisting on that string to lengthen it.