Show Me your First Bow ! Good ,Bad & Ugly ?

[Badger]

sorry about the pics, having problems getting them to send, will try again later.

   Very well tillered bow!! I would be happy with that even after all the bows I have built.

[Stick Bender]

Looks a whole lot better then my first.

[S.C. hunter]

Thanks Eric, and Badger. I'm trying to get a couple more pics sent of the belly, and back.
  Steve

[burchett.donald]

 Awesome looking bend Steve...Impressive 
                                                                Don

[S.C. hunter]

Thank you. Stickbender
 At the time I didnt have any staves, and was reading about quick build board bows, so off to Lowe's I went. I did learn a good bit making it.
Steve

[S.C. hunter]

Thanks Don,
 Working on getting the Hophornbeam posted. Hopefully real soon.
 Steve

[jeffp51]

The best way I can describe my first bow is to show the progression of the tips from the first one to the most recent.  The first looks like a broom handle, the last is down to 3/8th of an inch.  It has taken me a while to trust thin tips. (kindly ignore the fiberglass wallboard tape on the back of the first two as well--it took me a while to trust the wood, too.  But then I found PA and I have been a good boy ever since)

[simk]

Still owe you my first - it's done feb/march 2017. Maybe a bit too much bend close to the handle...
It was stave from european ash.

Why did I do it? Because the storm fell the big laburnum in my garden. After cutting half of it in pieces i remarked the wonderful wood and asked google about laburnum. Ok, it should be good for bows...and i was rememberd, that i always dreamt of doing a bow. So what you see from me are only exercises for future laburnum bows. Can't stop doing bows now and often have to force me not to work on bows.
Cheers

[simk]

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[burchett.donald]

Simk,
          Excellent for a first bow!
                                          Don

[DC]

That is nice, did you heat treat the belly? Is that what brought out the grain?

[Bob Barnes]

a little stiff thru the middle...

[Aaron curtis]

Very nice bows guys.  I am trying to post a few I just finished for my boys but it won’t let me. Maybe because I am new?

[Aaron curtis]

Here’s a couple bows I started 5 years ago when my sons were 1 and 2 years old.  Life got busy when the 3rd arrived and just recently found them in a corner and figured I might as well finish them.  The string silencers are obviously just for looks on a couple 12# bows.  Lol.

[BowEd]

Bob...I think we had the same worries when we made our first bows.I was deathly worried to hinge mine near the fades.I read where that was the end of the bow somewhere if that happened.
Sorta wish I had those nice staves back nowadays.Think I could do them a little different now.
DVS....I still don't see your first bow.