Boo/Hickory ELB

[Shooter]

I don't get a lot of time to be on the computer what with work and life and all. This is definitely my favorite place to visit and read through as many threads as I can, though.

I finished this bow last week and have managed to get a few hundred shots into it since. It's a hickory board backed with laminated boo.

It took quite a bit of set, as you can see, but I'm happy with it since it's my first successful longbow and it shoots great with very consistant groups. I used purpleheart for the nocks and an inlaid shelf/striker/finger groove. Sorry about the poor quality pics. It was so sunny that day that I couldn't see the image on the camera's screen, so I was shooting blind and my pic skills are pretty lame as it is. I held the bow while my son took the full-draw pic.

It's 72" o/a and 70 1/2" nock to nock. It came in right around 75# at 30" and is braced to 6".

Thanks for looking,

Bruce



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[radius]

good goin, man, i like the way you did the tips!

[Shooter]

Thanks, radius. I wasn't really sure where I was going with them but they turned out pretty good

[Pat B]

I'd say your bow came out very nice. Not that much set either, especially for 75#@30".  A simple design with nice bling bling!    The tips and arrow pass are quite nice.
   I have made bows with hickory backed lam boo but never the way you laid it up. Maybe I made mine wrong!      Pat

[adb]

Very nice looking bow. The tiller looks terrific.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Let me see if I got this right,... you baked it with bamboo floring ?

I've being thinking to do this for a while but I was never sure if it would work.

good job regardless on that bow, ..but you might wanna think to round the corners a bit

[Pappy]

Nice job on that one,love the tips and tiller looks nice also,wished I could pull 75 lb. 
   Pappy

[Hillbilly]

Good looking bow, but like Manny said, it's a bit square. I believe I'd do some serious rounding on those edges. Looks like you nailed the tiller, nice bend on it.

[Gordon]

I like the tips and the tiller looks right on. The string follow doesn't look bad for a bow of that weight.

[akila]

a verry nice bow i realy like it....and yess the set its not bad at all....nice job....

[Shooter]

Thank you for your comments, gents.

And thanks, Nomadic Pirate and Hillbilly for the advice. I'll make sure to do that from now on.

Bruce

[radius]

from now on?!  Dude, it's not too late to do it now!

[Justin Snyder]

Great looking bow. I love the inlayed arrow rest.  Justin

[Shooter]

Thanks, Justin

It was good to know the set wasn't as bad as I thought. Thanks, guys. I'm not stressin over it anymore

And I did round the edges off the back.

Bruce

[OldBow]

Great looking laminate! and bookmarked for June Laminate BOM, too.