Emily's Bow...

[Onebowonder]

Hey guys, My brother and I are building a bow for one of his patients that is an avid young archer.  Her name is Emily. 

She wanted it to be recurved, which while I've done is not exactly my specialty.  It's going to have to be fairly light weight for her to be able to use it.  Oh, ...and she shoots left handed.

Here are some pics of our start.  I decided on using a piece of quartersawn elm I had milled a few years back and then back it with a slat of bamboo.  I'll probably put a thin-ish power lam / handle made of an Osage scrap I had on hand.

OneBow

[Philipp A]

looks like a fine bow in the making

[PEARL DRUMS]

Good on both you and your brother, Eric. Very nice gesture.

[Springbuck]

The world needs more guys like you and your brother.  That's really great.  Can't wait to see how it goes.

I'd love to do that for some of my patients.

[bjrogg]

Great reason to make a bow Eric. Make sure you get pictures of you all together and the young lady with the full draw. Are you gonna make it to Marshall? My wife would love to have you and your wife's company as neighbors.
Bjrogg

[selfbow joe]

Looks like it's coming along nice

[osage outlaw]

Very good project guys.  Keep us updated on the progress.

[make-n-break]

Cool! Keep us posted!

[Del the cat]

Looking forward to seeing the end result and a smiling face 
Del

[ty_in_ND]

That's an awesome thing you 2 are doing! I know people post finished kids/low weight bows, so it will be sweet to watch one being made (especially a recurve!).

[Stixnstones]

Awesome, cant wait to see the happy archer with her new bow

[Onebowonder]

Thanx for the feedback and encouragement guys.  I'll be sure to post some kind of an update whenever we get back to working on this again.

OneBow

[Aaron H]

That is a very nice thing to do for a young lady Eric.  Good for you both

[Onebowonder]

Sorry for the extended delay on this project.  We had really intended to finish this up long ago, but we let ourselves get distracted.  (Mostly with FUN stuff, but a few that were nothing like fun at all!)  We finally got together yesterday and got the Bamboo glued on the back.  I had made an Osage power lam for this bow, but we didn't use it.  The bow is WAY WAY too strong already without the power lam!  I'll save the Osage for another bow later.  I'm not sure if the green of this bamboo will fade eventually, but so far this has not.  It was cut years ago and still holds it's color despite a way too long soaking in a tube full of water!  We'll see what happens...

OneBow

[BowEd]

Nice gesture for sure.Looks like everything's under control.You've got plenty of wood to work with to tiller it down.