Hi all!
I finished a black locust bow last days.
It comes from a pair of branches of black locust given to me by a local gardener. It has a very nice color this particular black locust wood, with some nice "black" areas. As they cut it just to arrange the tree they were short in length, so I had to splice them on the handle with a Z splice and to add a bit of wood on the belly side of the handle.
I didnīt want to touch the profile of the resulting stave, so it had (and has) a lot more reflex on the lower limb than in the upper one. It makes tiller a bit weird visually talking, but it feels good to me on the hand and acceptable for what I see. A total amount of about 1"1/2 initial reflex.
I wanted to try a pistol-kind handle and I decided to do it on this bow. Pretty comfortable too on the hand.
66" ntn and 44# at 26"
20#@14" 24#@16" 27.5#@18" 31.5#@20" 36#22" 40#@24" 44#@26"
I wanted to show the splice and the color on the handle area so I didn't put leather on it, I just put some leather thread crossing on the handle area. Burned arrowpass mark.
Oil based finish and a bit of wax mixed with oils on the last coat.
Linen string.
Thanks for watching!
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