Haven't posted much these days. Figured I'd share this one, I kinda like her. I started out thinking she was elm (cut last summer), but I'm thinking she could be gum. At any rate, she has nice thick rings and stained very pretty with a new cognac stain I tried this time. She fought me the whole way with sideways bends and twists, and some natural deflex in various spots. I finally got her straight enough to say done (you'll notice there's still a bit of a deflex area on the upper limb... it's not set). She shoots sweet and is surprisingly fast when I get a good draw and clean release. Cowhide with hair still on for the arrow pass, horn overlays on the tips from ol' Pearlie (Water buffalo I think they were? Thanks bro!), shoot off the knuckle with a simple leather grip, indexed for hand placement. Profile is somewhere between pyramidal and parallel
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, somewhat after a concave type profile I've seen on Marc's bows and a few others, just tryna work with the wood that I had available after shaving away the worthless wood. I trapped her instead of tempering this time, though I wonder now if I shoulda put the heat on. Anyway, the recipient is tall and lanky and I expected him to have a long draw, so I made her for up to a 30" draw. Turns out he only draws about 26" at the moment
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(he's very green, it'll increase as he gets into it). She's snappy even at the short draw. Ok, nuff talk, stats then pics:
Static recurve 69" ntn
45#@30"
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Thanks for lookin' y'all
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