New Handle

[Thwackaddict]

Here is the New Handle on the first bow i made.thanks Eddie

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[mullet]

 That is different, and looks good Randy. Is that bone or antler in the front?

[Thwackaddict]

Its antler,feels really good in hand,i liked the slick side out but she wanted it like it is matches the limb tip well.

[Pappy]

Looks good,but a mighty deep /long cut for my taste,the problem is if it ever bends right at the fad where you cut across the longitudinal grain it will pop a splinter. If it holds .no problem but I have had them pop up there more than once when I first started.So I don't do that anymore. Like the horn on the front,looks nice. 
     Pappy

[Thwackaddict]

Thanks Pappy,I'll keep that in mind.

[Eric Krewson]

When I made my first osage bow I was making the transition from a glass laminated recurve to a selfbow and wanted my new osage recurve to have a sight window just like my Birhorn recurve so I cut the window shorter but just as deep as the one you have on your  bow. I shot my new bow for a few months then "CRACK", it broke almost in two right at the arrow rest.

Since my first bad experience with a deeply cut sight window, this is as deep as I have cut one on the last 128 bows I have made. I took this picture of my favorite bow just now. I spliced several short copperhead skins together for the bow, you can see one of the splices in the picture. The arrow rest is not part of the bow but a piece of osage that I glued on a shaped.