First Bow/ Fantasy Piece

[mxalex229]

Just finished my first bow, and made some arrows. More towards the "fantasy" side. Since its my first, and I will likely keep it as a memento I wanted to make sure it would look nice on a wall.
All the carving was done by hand and brushed over with gold metallic paint. Final draw weight is 40# at 29 inches. Definitely more fun than building furniture. Already designing a new one that will be as visually appealing albeit more with more performance designed in with more thought into the mathematics/ tiller/ physics of the bow design. Can't wait to have that one done in the spring! Wish I could post more pictures, hope you all like it! let me know your thoughts!

[gfugal]

Do you have a picture of it braced and at full draw?

[upstatenybowyer]

It looks beautiful, but hard to give feedback without braced, unbraced, and full draw pics.

[aaron]

beautiful. are the lines on the back carved in? If so, I'm scared.
love the nocks- very original
great for a first bow, assuming the tiller is ok

[mxalex229]

ill have to get a picture of the draw and brace once the tru oil finishes drying

[mikekeswick]

Good job on making the first bow
I'd be a little wary of the gluelines at the handle. Next time make sure all surfaces mate really well.

[meanewood]

Looks good and the binding is nice and neat on the arrows.

Don't think much of your quiver!

[simson]

beautiful. are the lines on the back carved in? If so, I'm scared.
love the nocks- very original
great for a first bow, assuming the tiller is ok

+1
and welcome on board!

[mxalex229]

So here are the pictures. Sorry about the full draw picture, I had to take it on my phone with a 10 second timer and hope it came out well enough, also very cramped indoors. Also, what is the desired brace height? this is 7 inches from string to the center of the handle.

[upstatenybowyer]

Not bad at all for your first! Congrats!

[barebo]

They're waiting for this in Narnia!!! Neat concept - wild nocks...what wood did you use for this one?

[mxalex229]

It's black walnut with hickory backing. I just got the wood from pine hollow long bows. My next will be Osage and hickory

[bubbles]

Nice work.  For F/D pics I find that a video on my phone works very well, then I simply do a screen capture of the video when I hit F/D

[FilipT]

Nice Elvish bow! Good for Prince Nuada hehe. Did you or did you not carve design into back? It could weaken the bow, even though I know Will S made ash warbow with worm tunnels on the back of bow that didn't fail.

[mxalex229]

the designs are carved into the hickory backing, however the backing used was cut thick initially, and then the carvings only run about 2-5mm deep.