Marc St. Louis's BB Santos Rosewood is August Backed Bow of the Month

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Marc St. Louis's  (of Corbeil, Ontario) Bamboo Backed Santos Rosewood
is August Backed Bow of the Month

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http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,3040.0.html

From Marc: This is a D/R Bamboo backed Santos Rosewood bow I recently made. The bow is 62" N to N with 1 1/8" wide limbs that taper to 1/4" nocks, the limbs have a slight D section to them. It pulls 55# @ 28" and even though I haven't chronographed the bow I can tell from shooting it that it's fast. I glued in about 1 1/2" of reflex and it holds about 1/2" after shooting it several times. You can see from the picture of the limbs that the Rosewood has a very attractive grain to it. t's a very oily wood and does not seem to be bothered by moisture. The overlays are Buff horn   The riser is built up of White Ash, Bubinga then Rosewood.

I'll most likely use this bow for hunting this Fall, unless I sell it first


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[heavybow]

Great looking bow marc. marlon

[AndrewS]

It looks like a fine bow you worked out

[mullet]

  A rose of a different color is still a rose,nice bow ,Marc.

[Pappy]

Great looking bow Marc,beautiful job as usually.
   Pappy

[cowboy]

Congrats again Marc, be glad when I can build bows like that - if ever

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys.

Really, bows like this are not hard to make. In fact in some ways they are easier.

[ber643]

Mighty pretty, any way you look at it.

[medicinewheel]

great bow mark!!
congrats, frank

[koan]

Congrats Marc, thats one sweet bow...Brian

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks again guys. I am pleased with the way the bow turned out and I have enough wood to make another dozen of these

[Mark Smeltzer]

That is a great looking bow Marc.  I bet it is a great shooter.

Mark