Greetings from Finland!
Here´s my latest "toy" to share with you, dear PA readers:
The story of this bow started already in April 2013 when I glued a 6 mm thick slice of Bulletwood (Massaranduba) between two similar slices of Hickory and these on top of 15 mm slice of Bulletwood, the belly of the coming bow. I used Titebond III, squeezed the stack by rubberband and forced it to ca. 3" reflex for 24 hours drying. Then this glued stave was "forgotten" over a year and half until this November I found time to finalize it to English Longbow stylish bow for my own use.
The tillering process was pretty easy without surprises. Enough Bulletwood was left on belly side of both limbs to show nice contrast on lighter Hickory. The arrow strike plate and nocks are from domesticated water buffalo horn. Actually, the nocks are recycled from my older bow which resigned it´s contract a couple of years earlier. The bow has now six layers of Danish Oil on it and the string is Dacron, total 16 strands of red and yellow. The handle is made of leather got from a bag found from a flea market, stained to mahogany red with spirit soluble wood stain.
Some necessary data:
Length 72" nock-to-nock
Width 1 1/8") (30 mm) at handle and 1/2" (12 mm) at nocks
Braced @ 5,5" from belly side of the handle
Strength 74 lbs @ 28" (AMO, back of the bow; I draw ca. 29")
