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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Likemp on May 19, 2021, 03:04:16 pm

Title: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Likemp on May 19, 2021, 03:04:16 pm: First I want to thank everyone on this message board for all the help I've received. I spent quite a bit of time on here at this time last year to get my bearings, and then spent the past year (with frustration breaks included) silently toiling and breaking bows.

Heavily inspired by Stonehill Archery's series of short, flat, bendy handle bows. I became obsessed with the profile of those wide flat limbs with the short little static recurves steamed in. Knowing that that design would do well with the BL I had to work with, I've been focused on recreating it and am super happy that my first bow turned out the way it did. Here it is!

All heartwood black locust.
White oak tip overlays just because I wanted to try it and think it looks cool.
I'll wrap the handle at some point with something, just not sure what.
String is waxed linen.
55" NTN
2" max w.
49#@28"
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Likemp on May 19, 2021, 03:06:26 pm: More Pictures
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: burchett.donald on May 19, 2021, 04:35:29 pm: Congratulations on your first shooter!
Don
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Stixnstones on May 19, 2021, 04:44:21 pm: Nice work, I love a bendy/curve
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: bjrogg on May 19, 2021, 04:55:28 pm: Nicely done sir. Looks like you’ve been paying attention. Seems you have everything bending just right.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: airkah on May 19, 2021, 04:57:23 pm: Congratulations! It took me the better part of a year to get my first shooter too. Yours looks a lot better than mine did :)
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: George Tsoukalas on May 19, 2021, 05:09:52 pm: Nicely done! Jawge
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Will B on May 19, 2021, 05:16:47 pm: Congratulations on your first successful bow. Black locust can make an excellent bow. Well done!
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: WhistlingBadger on May 19, 2021, 05:22:48 pm: Very nice!
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: PaSteve on May 19, 2021, 05:55:27 pm: Looks great. Congrats.
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Post by: Del the cat on May 19, 2021, 06:13:23 pm: Excellent :)
Del
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Post by: Zugul on May 19, 2021, 07:07:04 pm: that's an impressive first bow, very well done!
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Pat B on May 19, 2021, 07:11:40 pm: Nothing better than a simple bent stick and you did an excellent job with your first shooter. 8) :OK
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: BowEd on May 19, 2021, 07:16:28 pm: Excellent for your first bow.It's held up very well.
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Don W on May 19, 2021, 07:38:42 pm: Excellent job
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Post by: Morgan on May 19, 2021, 08:15:02 pm: Looks great. Good job
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: SLIMBOB on May 19, 2021, 08:21:09 pm: I have built more static handles by far, but I love my bendies! You did this one proud. Very nice!
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Likemp on May 20, 2021, 11:24:25 am: Thanks so much for all the kind words! I'm ready to keep shooting this one and start building more. Picking up more BL this weekend!
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: bownarra on May 20, 2021, 03:20:19 pm: Black locust is a great wood and the potential to chrysal is the best tiller-teacher going :)
You did a fine job with this bow. The unstrung profile is nice :)
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Allyn T on May 20, 2021, 04:56:21 pm: Hey great job man, especially on a short bow, I feel like that is double tough
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: JW_Halverson on May 20, 2021, 05:01:15 pm: There are a lot of folks with more successful bows under their belts than fingers on their hands that cannot boast of a bow with tiller that good. Well done, sir, well done.
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Dvshunter on May 20, 2021, 06:31:51 pm: Congratulations and welcome to the addiction.
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Likemp on May 20, 2021, 10:01:19 pm: Wow, extremely kind words! Everything I read said take it slow so that's what I did, painfully so, and I guess the results speak for themselves.

I should also say there were several broken bows of different designs before this, with each one seeming to break at a later stage of construction, building upon the one before it. This one was actually from a "B" stave that I set aside as something to use in case I screwed all the others up. And, well, I screwed the others up, and it wasn't until I decided to stop fussing over layouts and just go with my gut that I pulled this stave out and slowly went to town.
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Aaron H on May 20, 2021, 10:56:32 pm: Very nice, congratulations
Title: Re: First Success! Bendy Handle Black Locust 49# @ 28"
Post by: Swampman on May 23, 2021, 10:38:16 am: That is a great looking bow with fine tiller! Congratulations on a successful bow. I am sure you will enjoy shooting that bow. It looks like a good hunter too.