Elm longbow (shy warbow) 100-105# 32”

[druid]

Elm longbow. Not the best wood quality but good enough for something like this. Non homogenous wood along the stave so I had to heat treat it parcialy to get stronger. Heated part overpowered rest of the bow. I should spoil cross section to balanced that and I was not motivated to do it. Because that tiller is not good as I want them to be, when make longbows. 77” long, about 2” of set after overdrawing, tommorow little less, about 1 1/3. Next dozen bows I am making from good but not premium staves. When I get in good balance I will start with A+quality staves that waits for me in stash.

[druid]

For some reason I can not attach full draw pic to the same post. Here it is. Let moderator make this together if it is OK.

[Marc St Louis]

Nice.  If you are going to do any heat-treating then the whole bow needs to be done at once

I think the file size limit was exceeded with the last picture.

[Del the cat]

Nice work as always 
Can't wait to see a bow from the A grade staves.
Del

[Parnell]

Very cool bow and gnarly coveralls.

[FilipT]

Druid, you are back. Lijep pozdrav iz Hrvatske.

[DC]

That's amazing. I can't ever get my arm back that far without a bow

[Springbuck]

That's a wonderful bow, Druid!

  I have never made an elm bow that heavy weight, or that long, but I have made a few around 60-70 lbs in the 67-70" range, sometimes with lots of knots.

 I know you don't need MY advice, but I have good success and low set if I get a good, even, but not extreme bend in the middle of the bow.  Then, I let the outer 1/3 of the limbs get just a little soft, almost whippy, then stiff again the last 10 cm or so.

  At first I was under-bending the outer limbs is all, I think.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Love seeing your stuff! Glad your back. I can’t quite tell, how did you do your nocks?

Kyle

[selfbow joe]

Nice bow

[helmet]

I like to see that launch an arrow, cool bow

[TorstenT]

Cool bow! Really ambitious to built such a strong bow from a gnarly character stave - well done!
But I really think you should add some horn nocks. As far as I can see on the one pic showing a nock, you‘ve cut them rather deeply through the back rings. Especially with a 100+ poundage I would be terribly afraid that the nocks would just tear off.

Best regards
Torsten