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Offline johnston

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Johnston's Second Bow (not for bom)
« on: May 29, 2011, 11:32:43 pm »
This is my second bow. Made from a 3" by 1" hickory board 58" tip to tip and 56"  bottom of pin nock/bpn. It is 2 1/4" at the fades with a straight line taper to 1/4" nocks. Handle is 1".Bow is 1/2" thick out of the risers and tapers to 7/16" at bottom of pins. I stopped at 67# originally but after 20-30 arrows came to my senses and took it down to 59# @25". It will cast a 500 gr arrow about 160 yds. I only have room to lay out 150 yds and its woods after that. In the pic's the tiller looks different than in the shop but am currently "shooting it in" so maybe some tweaking will be done later.
Handle is hemp wrapped over leather(still smell the mule sweat) and rest is leather also. Dye is Rits.<a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h418/EarlLane/?action=view&amp;current=016-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h418/EarlLane/016-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Thanks for looking.

Lane

Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Johnston's Second Bow (not for bom)
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 11:52:12 pm »
very nice bow Lane, love the color of the dye job. brace pic and full draw are sweet. good work man!
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"  C.S. Lewis

Offline Arrowind

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Re: Johnston's Second Bow (not for bom)
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 12:08:26 am »
I like it too.  It would be nice to see a few more pics for different angles...
Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?

Offline johnston

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Re: Johnston's Second Bow (not for bom)
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 10:41:18 pm »
Folks thank you for looking. I am real new to uploading pictures and you can see how bad I am at it. These are not all the pic's and for better or worse I am gonna try again...
I hope its right. Thanks again.

Lane