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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Tree_Ninja on December 11, 2014, 11:37:01 pm

Title: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Tree_Ninja on December 11, 2014, 11:37:01 pm

 Hey all,

  I made this bow for my girlfriend to shoot, because my samick 50# re-curve is too tough for her.

  about 64" ntn and 35#@28"


  Sorry no full-draw pics, currently it's on the living room wall. 

   B-50 bowstring. 

 thought I'd share it. Thanks for looking

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Chief RID on December 11, 2014, 11:44:07 pm

Very pretty. How does it shoot?

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Tree_Ninja on December 12, 2014, 12:17:38 am

chief RID:  Not bad, a bit of a volley helps.  When you shoot with a commercial bow for a while , going to to the small one is....  a bit lame. 

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: DC on December 12, 2014, 02:03:46 am

Is it OS too?

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: mikekeswick on December 12, 2014, 02:25:43 am

Cool looking stick  ;)
A wooden bow of 35# can be made that will shoot at least as fast as a 'commercial' glass bow. They normally aren't made to be out and out speed demons more like 'indestructible'! The other week I was shooting at my local 3d course and a few of the glass bow shooters had a chrono out.....They were getting mid 160's to mid 170's at around 8 - 9 gpp I had my favourite hornbow shooting quite light arrows......213.5 fps...... ;D

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Del the cat on December 12, 2014, 03:15:03 am

V nice I think 35# is a surprisingly effective weight.
Del

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Aaron H on December 12, 2014, 07:07:09 am

Very cool.  Great work ninja

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Tree_Ninja on December 12, 2014, 09:26:50 am

Thanks for the nice words everyone, It does shoot smooth, and Lori likes it a lot.  I don't have properly spined arrows for it (carbon express youth arrows) so that may be why it's  not performing as well as it could.

And yeah it's ocean-spray.

I am working on a little yew stave, but most of my yew is too fresh to work.

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: Knoll on December 12, 2014, 10:36:33 am

Seems to be very pretty lil stick.  Congrats!

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: JoJoDapyro on December 12, 2014, 10:43:36 am

Looks really good. I haven't had any type of luck from carbon arrows out of any of my bows. I made some red oak board bows for my nephews and they shot really quick. They are about 15# bows.

Title: Re: #2 (Lori's bow)
Post by: simson on December 12, 2014, 11:46:19 am

Looks nice, a bit like horn - what wood is that?