I didn't get many pics of this one before I found it a home. I gave it to my neighbor's grandson on the spur of the moment and hadn't even had a chance to finish cleaning up the handle or oil it. A good project for him
This was strictly experimental. After building several d-section longbows with cherry and lam-boo, I wanted to see what cherry could take. I'm surprised that my 72" longbows are easily able to draw well over 30 inches with no chrysaling or any other issues aside from 'excessive' set (1.5" or so). I've had a hard time trying to get more than 55 - 60 lb out of them though.
I made this bow from a rift-sawn cherry board and cut the limbs' thickness and fades on my table saw. I set the blade height so that it'd leave 3/8 on the limb and clamped a stopper to the opposite limb so it would only allow the board to travel to where I wanted the fade to run up onto the handle. The ash is 1/8" thick and butt-jointed at the middle of the handle. As you can see, it's pretty sloppy. The tiller is slightly off but nothing to get worked up about. It took some set and lots of string follow, but it was fun making it and trying new things. The limbs taper from 1.5" to 1/2" starting about 10 inches from the tips. I left a little shelf and elongated the handle to see if I could get the handle to flex some. I thought it would allow for a little more draw length - if only slightly so. It's a little sluggish but quiet with no shock.
58" o/a
45#@28 I think my son's only drawing about 27" in the pic but it'll go to 28" no problem.
Thanks for looking
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