Finished this one up a couple weeks ago. I made it from a very twisty, bendy Rocky Mountain Juniper log which I cut with a hand saw and hauled out of the Shoshone National Forest on my shoulder. It was character building.
Backed with four layers of elk sinew, covered with a bull snake skin. (Yep, that's all one skin--it was a rather big snake)
Elk hoof tip overlays and arrow pass inlay. Handle is wrapped with deer leather lace.
Finished with pine rosin/lard/beeswax varnish. Coyote fur string silencers.
60" long nock to nock; limbs approximately 2" wide. Has several degrees of prop twist which you can clearly see in the full draw pics. I thought about trying to remove it, but with the amount of steam bending I had to do just to get the string to cross the handle, I decided to leave well enough alone.
It pulls 45 pounds at 27". It spits 450 grain arrows at 145 feet per second, which isn't blazing fast but not too shabby for such a weird piece of wood. Thanks for looking.
There is a big knot on the upper limb that I wrapped in sinew to keep it from coming apart. Then I covered the sinew in snake skin to make it look nicer. The black dots are just decorative, made with thin hide glue mixed with powdered charcoal.
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