Hickory horn bow. “Bolt”

[Hamish]

Gotta agree with Gut... Badass!

[Weylin]

Awesome! I love everything about it. You did those skins justice

[Kidder]

Holy crud that is a bow! I have no idea what the other comments say, but that is one of the most unique, most beautifully done bows I’ve seen posted on this forum. A true masterpiece.

[superdav95]

Wow guys! Thanks again. so nice To have Boyers like you guys appreciate another man’s work.  I’ll be making more of these bows for sure.  Very fun build. 

I haven’t scribed my initials or bow name onto this bow yet… just a thought here.  What do you guys think I should call it. I’m second guessing my choice on the name “thunderstorm”.  Other ideas I’ve had so far,

“Thunderbolt”
“Thunderstruck” (for all the ac/dc fans)
“Lightning”. (Pasteve)
“Lightning stick”
“Thunder stick”

Any other suggestions?  Let me know

Thanks for looking

[Allyn T]

Wow guys! Thanks again. so nice To have Boyers like you guys appreciate another man’s work.  I’ll be making more of these bows for sure.  Very fun build. 

I haven’t scribed my initials or bow name onto this bow yet… just a thought here.  What do you guys think I should call it. I’m second guessing my choice on the name “thunderstorm”.  Other ideas I’ve had so far,

“Thunderbolt”
“Thunderstruck” (for all the ac/dc fans)
“Lightning”. (Pasteve)
“Lightning stick”
“Thunder stick”

Any other suggestions?  Let me know

Thanks for looking

Tempest

[simk]

That for sure is a hell of a bow and another hot seat for bow of the year!!!   
Your details like grip and tips are incredible and show true passion and great skills. I'd love to try these tips but dont think I could do it so precise, wow!
This bow is plenty fast and will easy outshoot most FG bows! You could make the next one even faster by adding more reflex and shorten a little - you are still far away from the limits of horn and sinew. This is the perfect target or hunting  bow as is.
Xheers, hats off and congratulations.

[superdav95]

Simk.  Thanks for your kind words.  I do plan to make more of these and been already planning for more speed out of these and getting closer to that line of still being a comfortable shooter and hunting bow.  This one shot in so well before I did the details like the grip checkering and lightning tips and skins that I felt I needed to do something special and different with it.  I’m happy with it but will be adding more reflex to the next ones.  I’ll likley have to use a stringer like what bowed does due to more extreme reflex on the next ones but that fine.  My goal for this bow was 50lbs which is good hunting weight for me.  Not sure I’ll use it for hunting yet or not.  I’ve got another few bows in the works that may be my hunting bow.  The tips were interesting to do.  I’ll have to thank my dentist if all people for these and the tight fitting tips as I used same technique a dentist uses to get your fillings to sit right mating up perfectly with other tooth when bitting down on the blue transfer paper between the two teeth.  I used similar techniques to get the tips perfect fit.  I used soft pencil marking on the bottom of the shaped horn and when I got close I would move back and forth transferring pencil marks on the on the high spots or wood that needs to be removed.  For wood removal I used small files then moved to razor blades for final scrapes into the corners for perfect fit.   

Thanks again for looking. 

Dave

[superdav95]

“Thunderbolt” (my wife)
“Thunderstruck” (for all the ac/dc fans)
“Lightning”. (Pasteve)
“Lightning stick”
“Thunder stick”
“Tempest” (Allyn T)

Keep the name ideas coming guys…

[organic_archer]

A true masterpiece. I’ve never seen anything like it! Excellent all-around.

[superdav95]

A true masterpiece. I’ve never seen anything like it! Excellent all-around.

Thanks man. 

[bjrogg]

Gotta agree with Gut... Badass!

You took the words right off my screen Hamish. That thing is one Bad Ass thunderstorm

Beautiful profiles

Bjrogg

[M2A]

Top notch bow! all around as good as they come. Excellent work.
You do work like that you can name it whatever you like but might be better going with what the wife likes lol
Mike

[superdav95]

Thanks so much guys for the compliments. Very  generous.   Your right Mike I might better take my wife’s suggestion after all.   She simplified her suggestion down to “BOLT” which I like actually.  Thanks guys for the kinds words and help on this build and others too I’ve posted in the past.  Good group here and lots of info sharing which I think sets this forum apart from others.   

Cheers. 

Dave

[backtowood B2W]

Very nice work and I love the details. As already mentioned badass 

[superdav95]

Backtowood,  thankyou so much. Very kind. 

After some deliberations I decided to name it “Bolt”.  Seems fitting for this bow.