Hi all,
I've been working on this the last couple of weeks as a gift for a guy's 50th bday. My old next door neighbors asked to to do it for their friend. They always got a kick out of my bow projects when they lived next door.
I made it from one billet splinting it on a growth ring. I used some African bloodwood I have left over from a friends dulcimer project. Funny story about the wood. I live in Thailand and my friend found it underneath a Buddhist temple in town where they are selling imported wood under the counter so to speak. He had to ask about 3 people about it and get questioned before they finally too him to their stash. Anyway I like how it looks with the osage.
its 63" NTN. Don't know the poundage as I have been tearing the house apart looking for the digital luggage scale I use to check the weight of my bows. But it must be close to 50# @28"
Sleeves I have made in a machine shop in Chiang Mai. I buy the stainless tubing and some brass stock and then bring it to a machine shop and have them turn them for me and fit them. Then I use their big arse vice and squeeze them into an oval shape while they are together.
Top Tip
bottom tip. Kinda big. I should have had the bloodwood a little thinner.
top limb
Where we got the skins from. I used half of this section for both limbs. Got the rest in my freezer. Got the skin from a guy who works at the snake farm. This one died and they kept it for me. $20. And I get 2-3 bows from one
Didn't take much set. There was a little natural reflex to the limbs after I split the billet.
Braced. Top limbs on right has a +1/8 tiller
My tiller tree
. I have one but didn't use it on this bow. just floor tillered, braced and then worked on it, took pictures and look at them like this. By putting them in iphoto on my mac and using the "straighten" edit feature it pulls up a nice grid to look at the limbs.
I'll see about getting a little video at the range this evening. I also like to look at the limbs slowed down in imovie to see how the timing is going. I guess you can feel that too but I like looking at it in a video for fun too.
