Preview of BL static/pics & more pics

[BowEd]

Yea Steve .....lol.Me either but thanks.There's a whole lot of things you've done with wood I did'nt realize.My friend Gary [a bow maker mentioned earlier here] says he's seen what you were teaching the fellas on another site where you were teaching those fellas how to design their FG bows or rather they were adopting your designs.Is that true?I forget the name of the site but there was a lot of testing going on.

[BowEd]

It was a site about a pirate.

[BowEd]

Is there a reason my pictures of my bow are'nt showing up on my comp any more?......lol.

[BowEd]

Alright this bow is as good as finished.It's a 64" TTT,62.5" NTN BL composite static recurve.A mouthfull...lol.It pulls 56#@ 28" after tillering and close to 300 arrows.In the beginning I started with a narrower than I wanted 2 year old stave and in it's final layout to avoid pin knots on the edges it ended up about 1.25" wide.I had made a 63"TTT 1 and 5/16" wide bow from the same tree earlier.That one was a slightly D/R holmgaard design.I pre-tillered this static to 20",aligned the tips [I thought] and then sinewed it.Tillering this design puts a lot of near handle bend.As I shot it in it developed compression fractures.I removed as much of them as I could.Then laminated some horn to it's belly.Retillered it to it's present look and weight.This bow shoots smooth with the string coming off the recurve at about 22".The arrow leaves clean and quiet.Hits where I'm looking with a 55 spine arrow.It never did have more than 6.5" of reflex before tillering.After a 3 hour session of shooting it still gives to the arrow close to 5" of reflex.It returns to 5.5" after 3 hours and to 5.75" overnight.Bare bones before handle wrap and finish it weighed 17.05 ounces.The skins are some plains garter snakes caught locally here and the horn is gemsbok.The wraps are red and black silk.The BL is local too.The silencers are a couple of woolys from the little womans yarn bundle.The string is 9 strands of fast flight plus 60" long with a 5 and 5/8" inside of handle brace.The bow gave me some complications but I still look forward to working with BL sometime again.A lot of detailed info I know but it's important and seems to work out that way.I don't make this type of bow on a regular basis.I'll do a lot of target shooting with it and then shoot some game with it hopefully.I am making a 68" hedge holmgaard for a converted compound shooter soon here.I'll get some pics of that on here too.Thanks for looking.Here's some pictures.Still no leather handle.

string alignment on arrow pass

ready to shoot

shooting

shooting

Target/A dark spot with no snow

Money shot/Not quite full draw

Another/A little better

Brace

[Carson (CMB)]

That is a mighty fine bow Beadman. Thanks taking the time to share it in detail. I get the impression you don't mind a stave that presents a challenge here and there.
I love the big recurve and those garter snakes are a nice touch. I am the same way with handle wraps...feel like I need to do something new each time. 

[BowEd]

Well thanks Carson.I'm really not a throw away type guy if I see daylight out of a situation.I really like the way it shoots.Look out varmints,turkey and deer is all I'll say....lol.I do have quite a bit of brain tan here and have done that before.Not to the degree that you put on your bows & I shoot off the knucle too yet.You know a good thick neck piece should work.That would be local leather too....lol.

[wizardgoat]

Holy smokes, that's a very cool bow.
A cool combo of some of my favourite bow styles,
that's a next level bow for sure.
It's always fun shooting the ones that take huge hours to make. Cheers

[BowEd]

Yea I know Wizardgoat.Sometimes I just call them a hybrid.Just joking.It's a static technically.Started sometime in August with it.Meanwhile I was pretty busy here.Building an addition on top of this burm home.Did make another bow while I was waiting though too.Here's a pic of one of those garter snakes in action.Catching his dinner.

[Badger]

  I used to get involved in the FG bow design discussion, not sure if anyone ever used anything I suggested or not.

[simson]

Really fine bow Ed, and great pics too.
When I saw the compression fractures, I thought now that's was it.
Great excecution!

[BowEd]

Yea me too simson.Thanks.From the past I recall you keeping a bow around quite sometime figuring out the solution to it too.You're waiting on a sinew job yourself if I recall correctly.It never hurts to keep trying sometimes with bows.There are things that are the death of a bow for sure though.I finally got off the fence about this handle deal.Some neck brain tan will fill the bill this time.Used bubbys' method of fitting it to this bulbous handle.Worked like a charm again.


Handles done and here's the pics.

[hammertime]

Great Bow!!!Love your target too! Really nice attention to the details-Hammertime

[Stixnstones]

wow! when i picture the perfect bow in my mind(cuz i've never built a perfect bow) thats what i picture. good on u sir, absolutely beautiful.

[BowEd]

Thanks but you oughta stick around here.There's guys on here making masterpieces.

[Stixnstones]

i know, some the best bowyers in the world r on here.