Bamboo backed Rosewood Bow

[snedeker]

Looks perfect.  the rosewood is really beautiful.  terrific profile.

Dave

[stonecarver]

Great bows come from greay bowyers,
like you

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys

This bow by the way has a shallow D section belly.

I've been making deflex bows like this for many years.  I remember thinking when I started making them with the deflex right in the handle, others at the time were putting the deflex in the limbs right after the fades that those making them that way were wasting a big part of the working limbs.  Consequently they had to make their bows longer.

[radius]

This is a bow I just made for a fellow in WY. He was looking for a short bow to take on a hunting trip to hunt Bears in Canada this Fall.  He was also looking for a bow that would resist humid conditions. I showed him some of the bows on my site and he chose an R/D design in Rosewood with a Bamboo backing.  This Rosewood comes from SA and is quiet an attractive wood with dark and light streaks in it.  It's also a very oily wood.  The bow is just over 59" long with limbs 1 1/8" wide tapering to 1/4" nocks.  The bow pulls 55# @ 27".  I glued in just over 3" of reflex in the bow and it has kept about 1" of that.  I've shot the bow a few times and it shoots quite well with good speed.  Should do the trick for Bears and whatever else he wants to hunt.  Here's a few pictures

i looked for your site...where is it?

[Dano]

DUH!


marc.stoneflake.net/

[Badger]

Mark, I think there is an advantage to deflexing them in the handle, especially on the shorter ones. I coppied a little recurve that mullet did recently and just love the way it shoots 58" long. Steve

[Marc St Louis]

Steve
I frankly don't know why some of these other professional bowyers weren't doing that from the start.  Makes much more sense

Radius
If you check my profile you will find the link to my site.

[david w.]

mark is a bow god   I love your bows

[Far East Archer]

Lovely bow Marc!
You do fine work, especially with these little demons 

We get some rosewood here but it comes in really small pieces and I know what you talk about when you say expensive. Very nice wood though! Its all I use for tip overlays etc 

Again, nice bow sir!
Take care,
Alex

[Justin Snyder]

Sweet little bow Marc.  If it doesn't do the job on bear it isn't the bows fault.  Justin

[Ryano]

Nice bow Marc. Did you do any chrono testing? Looks like a screamer.....

[radius]

Marc,

Thanks, I started checking out your site.  Nice mocassins...

I see on your recurves you often include a string bridge...is that an add-on piece?  Or do you just carefully carve it into the wood of the limb?

[radius]

also, do you use the term Duoflex interchangeably with deflex/recurve or r/d?

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys.

No I didn't chronograph it Ryan.  I know it's fast.  If I chronograph it I may not want to part with it 

Radius. The bridge was an add on piece with many of the recurves I made several years ago but some of them were carved in.  The duoflex is based on a bow that Wiilcox made and is not a static recurve, like my other recurves.  A very hard bow to tiller out

[Badger]

   Mark, one reason I liked the deflexed handle is that I can make my limb a bit straighter and it seemed easier to tiller out. Steve