Time to wipe the dust off (new full draw pg5)one for the little people

[Selfbowman]

Looking solid! BJ I’m watching this . Best of luck to you and the shorter man. Arvin

[superdav95]

Well I misunderstood that then.  Still a great cause.  Bend looks good so far

[bentstick54]

Shaping up nicely already. Can’t wait to see what you get out of that short stave.

[bjrogg]

Thanks guys.

No problem Dave I can certainly see how I could have been misunderstood.

My little person friend text me back and seems to have a pretty good idea what he wants. Said his draw was 16” and he wanted about 10 lbs for draw weight. Says he has shoot off the knuckles before so he doesn’t want arrow shelf.

I worked on it some more last night. Shaped the tips and put string notches in. Roughly shaped the handle. I have it ready for a string but I figured I better get home before I get in trouble with my wife.

Hopefully today I can get it a string and get it really close to that 10 @ 16”

Bjrogg

[Pappy]

Looking good BJ, take you time, they get really touchy went you get them below 20 or so. That is about what I just made for the grand kids and they can get away from you fast. Watching and good luck, I am sure he will love it . Pappy

[bjrogg]

Looking good BJ, take you time, they get really touchy went you get them below 20 or so. That is about what I just made for the grand kids and they can get away from you fast. Watching and good luck, I am sure he will love it . Pappy
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Thanks Pappy and thanks for the tips.

I have made a several very similar to this .

I’m going to get a string on next. I’m pretty sure I’m still way to heavy, but I know that it gives up fast from here on out. Pretty sure the rest is going to be scrapper and sand paper.

Hopefully will have some updated pictures later.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Well I made up a string and scraped off what wasn’t a bow. Probably still a little more that doesn’t belong, but I think I’m going to wait till I can put it in the owners hand.

Bjrogg

PS it really gets tricky figuring out what isn’t a bow now. Just a couple scraps are noticeable

[bjrogg]

Unbraced profile

[bjrogg]

Braced

[bjrogg]

I took it a to about 17”

I don’t want to take any more weight off until he tries it out.

I don’t really trust this scale at these low weights. It says about 19@16”
,but the scale is at about 3 without anything on it. That’s maybe around 16@16”

By the time I sand it I’m thinking it might be close. Id rather be just slightly heavy than to light.

Bjrogg

[superdav95]

Lookin good

[bjrogg]

Thanks Dave.

Hoping to get together with my little person friend today. He lives off grid in a little old shack by a creek. He’s a tough little guy.  I wasn’t sure if he stayed there during the coldest parts of winter but he does.

Hopefully I can get some full draw pictures with him today and get his bow to fit him perfectly.

Bjrogg

[bentstick54]

Turned out nice. I bet he will love it.

[George Tsoukalas]

That looks s good, Bj. Tiller is awesome. Jawge

[paulsemp]

Looking good. I know I've made a lot of kids bows and they certainly are touchy. Just make sure it's not too heavy for him. Kids will always tell you it's okay but you can see the look in their eyes when they pull it back and whatever weight it comes out to be does not matter as a kid could care less. You remember Caul at marshall? I helped to make his first bow. He pulled it back and said it felt good. So I told him pull it back 10 times in a row and by the 6th or 7th time he was running out of gas. We took five more pounds off of it and he enjoyed it much more but he also outgrew it quicker. Also if you flip your bow upside down you will take the weight of the scale out of it