Sinew Backed Yew with Cotton mouth skins

[Bob W.]

Just finished up my 60" sinew backed Yew with flipped tips, rawhide over the sinew and Cottonmouth skins over the rawhide. Kingwood tip overlays. She is pulling 70# at my 28" draw and is stable as any bow I have ever shot. The Yew was very light colored so I dyed the edges black and faded it  to the center with brown. The handle is jute with a Massey finish. I finished it with Truiol and then hit it with poly to nock off the shine. Thanks for looking and any criticism is welcome.

[Bob W.]

[Bob W.]

[bjrogg]

Darn nice looking bow yah got there. No criticism here bend looks great.
Bjrogg

[Bob W.]

[Bob W.]

[ajooter]

Oh man what a beauty!  Would love to rip a few thru that baby!!

[Bob W.]

Thanks, here is the belly of the bow , the yew was 30 years per inch. I used knox hide glue and whitetail leg sinew and TB3 to glue the rawhide and skins on.

[hunterbob]

Sweet bow Bob. I like the looks of those skins. Hurts my shoulders just thinking about drawing that one back. Good job on the tiller also.

[osage outlaw]

That's a gorgeous bow!  I hope you post it in the B.O.M contest.  Why did you put rawhide over the sinew?  That's not criticism, just curious 

[Bob W.]

Thanks Osage Outlaw and HunterBob.  No reason other than to give the skins a nice smooth backing to glue on and to protect the soft sapwood out towards the tips.

[Mounter]

Wowzer!!! Beautiful!

[wizardgoat]

Nice bow and skins. Tiller looks nice

[penderbender]

Sweet shooter you got there! Love that unbraced profile! Cheers- brendan

[Lehtis]

Great work!