Bulletwood recurve

[PatM]

Here ius a bow I've been working on for a while. Still needs finishing up.
 Bulletwood with a single ring of Ash for a backing. Elm spliced in recurves and Ipe handle.

[JW_Halverson]

Holy jeepers, wow, I wanna see more!

[SA]

ya me too,there have been alot of statics posted lately i'm working on one myself,looks good.

[Hunter Van Winkle]

Very beautiful!

[Marc St Louis]

Looks good Pat.  Will we get to see this one done anytime this year, you are notoriously slow at finishing a bow.

[PatM]

Ha! No kiddiing Marc. I actually tend to pick away and get all the pieces set up, get the next part done fairly quickly and then delay the finishing. I have quite a backlog of pieces of wood or trees that have to be bows even though I don't need 40 bows.
 One day I might reach your stage of being able to re-work finished bows.

[anasazi]

I have another dumb question.

How do you keep that kind of splice from pulling out when you string the bow or draw it back?

It is a beautiful bow cant wait to see it finished.

[Tom Leemans]

anaszi - That glue joint is probably much stronger than the wood in that bow. (Not a dumb question)

[beetlebailey1977]

I do like the looks of that.....awesome looking bow there.  Can't wait to see the finished product.

[PatM]

The backing overlaps the splice so it's effectively like the splice is hardly there. You can also do a thin underlay on a v splice and wrap if you're worried about your glue line.
 Smoothly blended curves and good glue joints are pretty indestructible.
 I will probably get the bow strung up and shooting at a shorter draw and see how it's reacting before I make a decision whether to add a bit of sinew or not.

[lesken2011]

I know this is probably a dumb question, but, is bulletwood massuranduba (I think that is how you spell it)?

[anasazi]

What kind of glues can and do you use

[mikekeswick]

I know this is probably a dumb question, but, is bulletwood massuranduba (I think that is how you spell it)?

Yes it is.
Nice looking bow so far.
Why are you thinking about putting sinew on it?

[Marc St Louis]

I don't know if the White Ash is up to handling the compression strength of the Bulletwood so the sinew may not a bad idea.

[PatM]

Update. Progressing much faster than Marc thought.
 Low brace and  short draw. Since these photos have been taken underlays have been added to the splices and the tiller tuned with more bend in the outer limbs.