This is very much an experimental bow.
I made a shootable bow in a day at the club's Beltane festival. It was a horrid twisted bit of Hazel, but it made a shootable bow (~50# @ 26").
I decided to experiment with some pretty harsh recurves in an attempt to get 'em rolling over right at full draw to get a feeling of let off like a compound (spits on floor).
You can see in the full draw shot the string isn't quite lifting off the recurves yet, it's been tweaked a bit since then... but that's all part of the experiment.
The tips were done by thinning them, steam bending and then adding another steamed curved lam' onto the belly. I had to steam the tips to take out twist too.
The FD shot was taken a while ago, the final finishing seemed to weaken that lower limb which I've since heat tempered to bing it back.
The real point is the paint job, some old black and brown acrylic rubbed onto string and pulled over the back.
I'm not a great fan of paint jobs (there have been some stunning exceptions to this recently posted) but I do like abstract art.
I though what could be more primitive? To me it has that spontaneous feel of 'put your hand on the cave wall and spit ochre over it'.
Maybe it's a love it or hate it thing, I don't mind either way, so feel free to be scathing if you want.
It was fun to try paint on wood with a bow I'm not worried about experimenting with.
I don't really know the finished stats as it may be an ongoing experiment that never actually finishes.
Hoping to shoot it at a 3D meet next weekend... dunno if it qualifies as 'primitive' (the paint job may help
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Fuller details, build along etc on my blog as usual starting with this post.
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/twisted-beltane-hazel.htmlDel
