Black locust 60# at 28”

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Here’s a black locust bow I made at a walk back in Time event recently. I couldn’t shoot while there so I could get up to the point of shooting in there but had to shoot in and tweak a bit once I got home. The roughed out bow got handled by LOTS of school kids that came through to learn.

The tree the stave came from had a punky core and the evidence of that shows in the discoloration on the belly in spots. So I decided to to heat treat to reduce stress on the limbs a little. I got about 1” total set with the lower limb having some knots causing a bit of extra deflex. The limbs are 2” wide from the fades to midlimb and has a double taper from midlimb to the tips being about 3/8” at the nocks. The overlays are desert iron wood and very hard. The handle wrap is stamped 5/6oz Herman oak leather, stitched with a single strand lacing braid. The handle wrap bumps up to the edge of the shelf to add a little useable width. It’s not a speed demon shooting 550gr arrows around 150fps. but should be quite stabile over time.

Thanks for looking

Kyle

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Some more

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Last batch

I wasn’t working in this bow in the picture, I had moved onto roughing out a Honey Locust ELB, but it shows the setup

[organic_archer]

Clean lines! Love that profile. 150fps will get the job done just fine.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Thanks,It’s one of my favorite profiles to work. May not be the fastest but it sure is stabile, and looks good. I agree, it’s plenty of performance. Especially since I was maybe hitting 27” when shooting through the chronograph.

Kyle

[superdav95]

Looks very nice.  I like the natural wood finish it has.  That leather work on the handle is very cool. 

[Selfbowman]

Looks good and cool to have the young people interested .

[LeightonM]

Pretty bow! How long is she?

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Thanks guys.
It was great to see how many people were interested and curious about the wood bows. Especially the little kids, though they were more curious why I was wearing a skirt and standing bearfooted in the shavings.
I already sent it off and can’t remember exactly. But 28” limbs, 3” fades, 4” handle and 1” past the nocks, so 68” tip to trip

Kyle

[PEARL DRUMS]

Nice bow Kyle. I like that fancy leather grip.

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Thank you sir. I’ve been playing with leather a lot lately and figured I’d try incorporating stuff I’ve been learning into my bows. I’m gonna have to try scenic tooling at some point on these grips. But I really like how the lacing braid turns out for how simple it is.

Kyle

[bjrogg]

Nice work Kyle. That sounds like an interesting event too. To bad you couldn’t shoot your bow there, but still pretty cool

 Bjrogg

[danielguex]

Beautiful looking bow! The "punky" belly looks real pretty, like some kinda birth mark.
I am a fan of Black Locust, great bow wood.

[bentstick54]

Very cool looking bow. Love the leather handle wrap.

[Will B]

Great looking bow!  I love the profile and the leather handle wrap. Black locust makes a great selfbow. Very nice work!