Heres a little bow I just finished up. It was made for my friend Chris who has been confined to a wheel chair for the past 20yrs. He is an avid outdoorsmen and sucessfully harvests a couple deer each rifle season. I had promised to make him a bow since he allowed me to harvest the telephone pole tree I posted a month or so back. Well I guess one good deed begats another because he gifted me with a 16ft diameter tipi. I posted it on the around the campfire section on another thread. I don't have any pics of Chris at full draw yet but here are some pics of the bow.
55" tipt to tip. 44# at 27". Kind of a modified pyramid and you can tell by the lack of a circular tiller. I has a slight twist out of the handle and a couple woop de doos one on each end that deflex out of them so I midley flipped the tips instead of trying to heat them out because I thought it looked cool. They are almost balanced evenly on both limbs One tip had about a 3/4" deflexed tip about 2" from the end, so I heated that out of it so they matched better. I chose not to go with overlays this time and did what i call a modified pin nock. If a guy ran out of arrows he could still run the tips through something if he had to protect himself. They are almost like talons. I treated it with lye to give it the aged osage look and I really like how it turned out. Nothing special leather handle and strike plate and 4 coats of tru oil.
I really like how this bow shoots. I'm hitting everything I look at so its good enough for me. This is the shortest bow I've made to date. I've got another one in the works thats a 54". We will group tiller it at OJAM next week.
