Just because I'm posting 2 bows in one day doesn't mean I've become a "bow building machine", I wish. It means I'm actually finishing projects I started awhile ago. I cut out or attempted to cut this bow about a year ago. By attempted I mean I screwed up with the bandsaw and cut in too much just out of the handle/fade area. After a few choice adult words criticizing my newby mistake, I am a newby after all, I tossed the stave aside thinking well one day it might make a good kids bow. A week later while looking for something to do one afternoon while I waiting for glue to dry this little osage stave called to me. "OK OK, I'm sure you have something to teach me I thought." So I started working on the bow. I got it to floor tiller then heated about 1 1/2 reflex. My next work time with this bow (between other projects) I got it to 20" draw. As I suspected it was going to come in under weight for a hunting.
I remember coming into the house telling my wife, Schuy (Sky) that this was going to be a sweet little bow, but not a hunting and asking if she'd like a bow. Where upon she said she was not interested in shooting a bow, but thanked me for the nice gesture.
I worked on this bow on and off for several month. Then I saw some really cool artistic archery photos on a model/photographer website. I'm a photographer. So I started thinking about a bow that would look good and be a low draw wieght that a model with no archery experience could draw back. That little osage could fit the bill.
I sinewed the back for looks and planned to add snake skin.
