Well, folks, it's been awhile since I posted a bow. But I have built a few...This one is a Christmas gift to my brother in Calgary. He doesn't know what's in the mail as we speak, but I hope he understands it's my way of saying thank you when he sees it.
52"NTN, all hickory slat with a rawhide backing. draws 40lbs at 23". I used artificial sinew wraps on the tips instead of overlays.(I don't have any real sinew). Sealed with TBIII. The reverse handle which is 2 extra slats of hickory laminated to the curve was glued on in a form to get the limbs in front of the handle. Worked quite well I must say! Just after unstringing the limbs are slightly gull-winged, but still rest just even with the belly side of the grip. After 15-20 minutes rest the limbstips sit about an inch ahead of the grip.
The rawhide runs tip to tip from a large doggie rawhide bone, which provided enough material for 2 more bows like this. I found this rawhide to be no more than 1/16th inch thick, and I wrapped the bow limbs with cordage while the TBIII dried.
It was quite white in colour but rather uneven, so I painted it with acrylic black paint. Sorry I forgot to photograph the painted back. 4 coats of tru-oil sealed it all in.
This bow actually came together very easily for me, no troubles along the way at all. And I was waiting for something to go wrong somewhere!.
The tuft of fur is my take on the horsehair tassles on many of the Plains bows I've seen pictures of. This bow is in no way a replica of any particular style, I just threw several ideas together and this was the result! The bow is abit sluggish, but I expected that without the sinew backing I WANTED to use! But hey, I'd love to keep it as a bunny bow if my bro' doesn't want it. In the full draw pic, I have to keep a fairly bent elbow to short draw this bow. Not real comfortable for a 28" draw archer....
Also, the plains quiver was made by a good friend of mine a.k.a.("agd68") from my homemade buckskin from last year's forkhorn buck. He also provided the red tradecloth bow sock and the three arrows, again with wild turkey feathers I had. Pretty nice beadwork he did as well!
Let me have it....I love to learn from my mistakes! Thanks
p.s. I found a pic with the bow on the table at the club....Not a great pic, but you can see the general strung profile with the black rawhide backing. I take terrible pics it seems!
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