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Asiatic Composite Build-Along

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tom sawyer:
Update.  Been busy bowhunting and duckhunting these last few weeks, plenty of ducks but no deer in the freezer.  Well, there is one but its a roadkill doe I cut up.  Yes I am a redneck.  My wife actually saw it laying on the road and called me.  She likes deer jerky.  Yes she is a redneck too.

I did apply silk over the sinew on the composite bow, and painted that black.  It looks OK, I still want to decorate it more than this.  And I need to wrap the handle/fades with cord or something, possibly put a leather handle wrap over that.  When this will get done, I am not sure.

I am writing though, to tell you that the bow has already been blooded.  MY friend came over last night to put a leather handle on an osage bow I helped him make for his dad.  After we did that, and made a new string for it, we went outside to shoot a few arrows.  I took the composite bow along.  It was dark except for the porch light but I spied a couple of rabbits in the back yard.  I happened to have a broadhead arrow in my quiver so I shot at one of the rabbits and killed it.  About a fifteen yard shot, nothng special but I was proud and having a witness was cool too.  I had rabbits in my garden all summer, raiding my green beans.  So this was an act of revenge.

duffontap:
I was wondering what happend to you.  I enjoyed your project.  I've been wanting to do a kinda bare-bones composite.  Your build-along made it sound possible.  Will you be posting pictures soon?

          J. D. Duff

tom sawyer:
I'll take a couple more tonight.  The tiller is looking alright and the bow seems fairly stable.  I might get around to wrapping the handle this weekend.  Then again, I'm taking my 50-cal muzzleloader out for the gun opener tomorrow, and we're getting a north wind that might push some new ducks down our way so Sunday will probably be spent in the marsh.

Life is good!

I think I have less than $40 worth of materials in this bow.  $15 for horn, $15 for sinew, a $5 bamboo slat (enough for two), some resorcinol (a few dollars' worth) and some small pieces of hardwood for handle and siyahs.

tom sawyer:
Managed to get a buck on Sunday with the 50cal Hawken rifle, wish I'd had my bow instead because it was a 20 yard broadside shot while he was standing still.  Thats my excuse for not posting more photos till now.

The last three pics added are of the silk backing after it was painted black, the handle wrap which is duck decoy cord, and another full-draw photo.  I wrapped the handle just like I would serve a string, that worked really well and it looks very nice.  I may yet add a leather handle, and I have to paint something on the limbs and put some tung oil on the siyahs.  But its getting closer to being officially done.  I'm thinking I'll get it finished by December.

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l200/62tomsawyer/Asiatic%20Composite%20Bow/

Roger:
I like the tiller Lennie...looks good. Real fine job on that one. Looks like you've been on a diet... ::)

Roger

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