Finished it today. This one was weird cuz when I bought the board it was perfect on all four sides, no run outs. After roughing out it looked all crazy. It had really thick rings that were hard to see. I don't think I layed it out quite right.
68" long, 1.75" at the widest tapering to bout 11/32. Turned out to be 45# at 27". Handle is 1" wide and has hickory and a red oak veneer. It's got tan sisal wrapping with brown jute accents. The bow's backed with burlap that has a pattern in it. I thought it looked sorta camo in a primitive painting kinda way.
After fussing and fighting with high stress designs and failures for a while, I forgot how smooth these long simple pyramids shoot. I was hoping for 5 more pounds but I'm real happy with the way it turned out.
It's still "raw". It's only been burnished. Been shooting it in all afternoon. It took about 1.5" and 2" set cuz it was 100 degrees and miserably humid today. Only thing left to do is put some tb3 on all the wraps, burn in a name and stats, and slather it in lard. Just didn't think I'd have time to post pics again as I'm working overtime this week to make up the off time for Mojam. I'll be shootin this one there. Thanks for lookin'.