Maple Backed HHB RD

[Marc St Louis]

This is a little bow I recently finished.  It's HHB backed with Sugar Maple in an RD style.  The bow is 66" long and pulls just over 50# @ 30", the bow is tillered to 31".  I gave this bow a bit more deflex than I normally would because of the long draw.  It's got about 1" of reflex left from the 4" I glued in.  The full draw image is while I was tillering the bow

[bow101]

That is like a perfect profile on that RD bow, very nice.

[Will H]

You are the master of that design thank you for sharing

[simson]

You are the master of that design thank you for sharing

+1
looks fast, is that draw in the f/d 30"? Looks like there is still 2" more in it. Incredible bow!

[Marc St Louis]

Thank you guys.

That is actually 31".  The guy I made it for has a 30.5" draw.

[koan]

Im surprized at the sugar maple backing.. maybe its a regional nickname? What we call sugar maple here in Mo. aint worth a plug nickel for anything... A small wind will tear out the biggest limbs in a tree..... That extra deflex messes with my tillering eyes, lol. I had to go back and forth from unstrung profile to full draw several times to wrap my head around it  ... Thats a nice bend!.... Brian

[bow101]

Im surprized at the sugar maple backing.. maybe its a regional nickname? What we call sugar maple here in Mo. aint worth a plug nickel for anything... A small wind will tear out the biggest limbs in a tree..... That extra deflex messes with my tillering eyes, lol. I had to go back and forth from unstrung profile to full draw several times to wrap my head around it  ... Thats a nice bend!.... Brian

Out west we call it Eastern maple, our western maple not good for much it has to much sap wood and is much softer.  Vine maple is good for bows.  Most of the early FG bows had maple core and is still used today.  The Eastern maple also produces more Maple syrup.

[NeolithicMan]

I love seeing your name under a bunch of capital letters Marc, lets me know there is a wicked bow waiting after a quick click! Very sweet bow as usual

[hammertime]

I like all the different woods in the handle glue up...cool bow-Hammertime

[Lee Lobbestael]

You are the master of that design thank you for sharing

+3

[Stixnstones]

kudo's and kudo's again

[Peacebow_Coos]

That's looking real nice, I like the handle build up too

[Marc St Louis]

Sugar maple, it's common name, is one of the hard Maples and what most tap for maple syrup.  It is nearly as dense as Hickory.  I've had better success backing bows with Maple than I have with Hickory.  Yes you need a good eye to be able to tiller a bow like this out.

I could have made the bow a couple inches shorter but because this bow is for someone else I prefer to give it a bit more durability.

[IdahoMatt]

Very nicely done Marc.  I love to see your bows man.  They just look so fast and fine tuned

[rps3]

I would love to take that for a test drive.