The title should say it all. This is a backed bow.
I started this bow 2 or 3 years ago, been awhile so I forgot
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, but it was giving me trouble so I shelved it for awhile. It was, at the time, mostly tillered but the bow had lateral stability problems that were aggravating. To fix it I cut 2" off the tips and this took the reflex down to a more manageable level. After I cut it down finish tillering the bow out was fairly easy.
Anyway the bow is, as the title say a hickory backed quarter sawn Osage that's 55" N to N. The limbs are 1 1/4" wide tapering to 3/8" nocks. The deflex was glued in and the recurves steam bent. The reflex was glued in with the Hickory backing. The bow finished up at 62# @ 28" and has good string tension so I expect the performance to be very good. After tillering the bow retains about 1/2" of reflex which goes up to 1" after sitting for a little while. The tip overlays are made of Brazilian Ironwood. Here's a few pictures
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/Composite%20Bows/Hickory%20backed%20Osage%20Recurve/100_0346.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/Composite%20Bows/Hickory%20backed%20Osage%20Recurve/100_0353.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/Composite%20Bows/Hickory%20backed%20Osage%20Recurve/100_0352.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Marc-St-Louis/Composite%20Bows/Hickory%20backed%20Osage%20Recurve/FullDraw.jpg)