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[M2A]

That's holding some nice reflex in the unbraced pic Dylan. Good looking bend on that piece!

Got most of the bells and whistles on the piece of locust i been working on. I used apple charcoal and copper chelate with egg yolk to make tempera paints for the bands. The whole back was stained with walnut hulls. Wrapped the handle with some cherry bark then some walnut stained rawhide to cover seams and ends. If I send this piece out I'll add some feathers to the handle. Plans are to finish with fat/wax finish. Think I need to find one of those paint pens to do the writing, I'm tired of the sharpie washing out with this type of finish.  Any suggestion on this whole project feel free to let me know.

Got 2 other pieces, stiff handle,  i'll put in another post. But 1st I have 2 weeks to finish a build( I hope) that's very important to me. Then I'll be back to trade bow work.

Thanks Folks,
Mike
IMG_3634 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_3635 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_3636 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_3637 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr         

[M2A]

Here's a pic of 2 other potential pieces for the trade. 1st is the Osage I had worked on in May. Almost got the checks removed and none run out off the side. I got limbs evened up best I could and have the handle built up some with purple heart and ebony. Other piece is locust, handle is kinda odd because of a knot running through it. Provided handle is 100% static I should be fine. Limb width is kinda narrow so my target weight will be the low end of my guy. a small amount of natural deflex out of the handle so i'll try and roll with that, and I put some reflex in the tips.

I got the osage bending pretty good while the locust is still on tight(long) string. Going to get overlays on both these next. If I can make these work, then determine what would be best fit for my victim. Just having fun building
Mike
IMG_3638 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_3639 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr   

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Finally working on the final touches on the second bow to pick between. It’ll be fun deciding which stays and which goes

Kyle

[sleek]

Whatchu got going on there with the handle and plastic there bud?

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Just a little wet fitting to get a nice tight fit with no stretch marks before I lace it up. Ever since I started doing that I don’t have any issues with the leather slipping without using glue. The plastic wrap just keeps the handle from getting soaking wet in the process. It’ll come off before I lace it up.

Kyle

[silent sniper]

Great looking bows guys! Your recurve has some very nice curves Kyle 👍🏻

[Mafort]

So I have a hickory backed Osage that I am gunna use for this trade however I’m about 5-10 lbs short. Good thing is it’s Osage and it’s about 70” long. Would cutting about an inch off of the ends raise that weight? I tried piking the length with a bow made of hickory and It didn’t raise the weight at all.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Here’s what I ended up going with for the handle. I’m happy with how it turned out.

Kyle

[Deerhunter21]

Well I’ve been MIA for a while. Got work and stuff, and I haven’t felt like working on a bow. I hope I can make a good bow but here’s where I’m at

[Deerhunter21]

I don’t know how I feel about this tiller rn. Not my best. Hopefully I can get it together.

[sleek]

Left limb, stay out of the fade. The mid limb looks stiff there too.

[Deerhunter21]

Ok.... this is it, gonna be hard to do anymore without changing the specs or doing anything huge.

45#@26”

Looks like right outer is stiff

[sleek]

Ok, are you at the draw eight and length you want?

[Deerhunter21]

yeah, i would like the weight higher and my persons draw is a big range so i can always add an inch or so and tiller to 27" but that still wont get me alot of weight.

[sleek]

Stop removing wood, and go get a heat gun. Heat treat the spots that bend too much. That will probably make those spots too stiff, and they will need to be LIGHTLY scraped to get them bending again. By time you finish that, you will not have lost any draw weight, and your tiller will be perfect.