Playing with Hickory

[Eric Krewson]

I had a mis-cut hickory blank and decided to play with it, I like to experiment. When I bent the statics one cracked a good bit so I added osage overlays to reinforce the curves. I used smooth-on for my first static reinforcements but they popped loose, I used Unibond the next time and they stayed put.  I finished tillering it yesterday and was surprised how zippy it was for hickory, the limbs are heat treated

The tip reinforcement;



The whole bow;



I had cut the blank out for my ham fisted nephew, I made the handle 4 1/2" which was much too long for what I had in mind. This bow has a long transition into the fades to make the 4" handle work.

[TorstenT]

Looks great! I really dig the color transition of the nock overlays - they almost seem to fade into the Osage backing. Cowardly me would probably have added a linen wrap over the free end of the partial backing... 
What’s the draw weight of this bow?

Torsten

[Eric Krewson]

45#@27", living alone can't easily take a full draw picture.

[George Tsoukalas]

Very nice! I like it. Jawge

[darinputman]

Looks like the overlays done the trick, nice work as always Eric.

[Hamish]

Nice save Eric. Hard to beat good old urea formaldehyde glues.
 I see a long rifle stock in the background. What calibre are you making?

[helmet]

That looks like a nice bow, good work!

[Eric Krewson]

A .54 Issac Haines, I may have to trash the precarve stock as it too out of whack to mate the barrel and lock.

[RatherBinTheWoods]

Looks great, love those tips and limb shape

[PaulN/KS]

Looks great Eric . 

[bushboy]

Good looking bow!nice save!

[Eric Krewson]

I stained the bow today with medium brown leather dye, lots of coats then rubbed it back to a sunburst, light at the handle fading dark to the tips. I am going to put an epoxy acetone finish on the bow to hopefully stop the hickory from absorbing moisture so quickly.