Sinew backed bamboo bow

[PaSteve]

Your artistic touch definitely compliments that bow. It's looking really nice.

[superdav95]

Thanks mike!   

[superdav95]

Your artistic touch definitely compliments that bow. It's looking really nice.

Thankyou sir very kind of you to say.  My wife helped me a bit with the layout of the vines and leaves.  I will wrap the handle and put arrow pass on as soon as I get my ray skin in that I’m waiting on.

Cheers

[BowEd]

I like it.I know it's hard to leave something alone.
It has a rosemaling look to it.
I attended a rosemaling display celebration once in NE Iowa.

[bassman211]

Nice bling.

[M2A]

Nice looking bow all around. Got some serious reflex to it. Like the paint. I always enjoy trying to come up with ideas on how to finish off a bow.
Mike 

[superdav95]

I like it.I know it's hard to leave something alone.
It has a rosemaling look to it.
I attended a rosemaling display celebration once in NE Iowa.

Ain’t that the truth.  I’ve been struggling to know how to finish this bow.  I got to the point of it being sinewed with a few layers and letting it dry to covering with thin rawhide and figured I’d call it done.  But it just looked incomplete to me so I kept going with adding the stain.  Still not felling like it was done.  My wife suggested something simple and elegant and she drew out the design on paper for me to copy.  I debated it a few days and decided I liked it so I went ahead with it.  This has opened up another idea with this bow now to do some different thing regarding the handle.  Gonna put some ray skin and salmon skin leather wrap I think next.  I’ll post pics when all done.  I looked into the rasmaling and it’s fascinating stuff. Sorta similar to what my wife came up with but rosmaling is more busy.   Thanks again Ed. 

[superdav95]

Hey gang.  I’m on wait with my current build to cure so I had some time to put finishing touches on this bow.  I added the binding wraps made from ostrich leg leather.  Made a proper string endless loop.  I had to make a jig for this one.  It’s tricky to string up but worth it.  It shoots like a dream and super fast!  It’s bad weather here right now but I’ll put up a video of me shooting it with some full draw pics. Here is a short video clip.  Thanks for following along

Video clip

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/hE2UaNiNJME3GACZ6

Cheers

[superdav95]

More pics…

[superdav95]

Last couple pics…

[bjrogg]

That is a very, very nice bow Dave.

Looks really fast. And well behaved

Bjrogg

[Selfbowman]

Ok do I understand this to be bamboo laminate or bamboo with the nodes on the belly with laminates then sinew ? Or am I completely wrong about it all.🤠  it’s beauty no matter ! I might need to send you an arrow.🤠

[superdav95]

That is a very, very nice bow Dave.

Looks really fast. And well behaved

Bjrogg

Thankyou bj.  Very kind.

[superdav95]

Ok do I understand this to be bamboo laminate or bamboo with the nodes on the belly with laminates then sinew ? Or am I completely wrong about it all.🤠  it’s beauty no matter ! I might need to send you an arrow.🤠

Its both actually.  It’s sinew backed on the node side (power fiber side) which is the back on this bow.  The belly is a boo lam also using toasted lam strip consisting of outer power fibers side. So essentially power fibers on belly and back glued together then sinewed on back.  The belly was made smooth of its nodes and stained black for esthetics.  It’s very fast bow and absolutely dead in the hands.

[Selfbowman]

So double stretchy back with extra light core. Thats interesting ! I bet it is fast!