Wow.... so many nice bows shown lately, thanks for showing guys. Simk motivated me showing off some of my lately work ... so here I am.
First time bow from (sister)billets, first time BL.
I got this billets gifted. They were already quite limited in its dimensions. Could only rescue 2 better growth rings for the back and a knot limited it width dimensions to pyramid design. 1 1/2 at the fades 3/8 at the tips. The Deflex isn’t glued in - it happens right in the fades and so the splice came together very nice. Also there is a S Shape which was very challenging to go along with the recurves. Actually I was after a D/R Design but when I formed the Reflex with the HG, some §%"! happened and I created a little crack on each side. For compensating as much from the S Shape the grain runs out, and there it happened. So i decided to go for a deflex recurve design, with leaving the tips stiff, and only a 26“ drawlenght. I patched and wrapped the cracks with sinew and wrapped another grain run closer out to the tips as well. Shooting it in, it took some set and lost some weight so I went for a heavy heat treatment. Have shot 1000 arrows at least and it seems to take no more set. String follow is 1/2“; 64“ ntn; bh 6“; 45#@26“. I didn´t expect to get a good bow out of it but it shots very nice and I’m proud to got the string aligned without breaking off the tips…
Thanks for watching!
First two pics before recurving the tips...
