interesting exposed beamwork in your shop, too
yes, it's a 200 years old farmhouse i live in here an hour south of cologne/germany; the room used to be my living room! ......
-....and still is
everybody thanks a lot for the remarks: i'm very pleased with the outcome of this piece of wood, mostly since i cut it before i had ever made a bow!
the tiller is most important so special thanks on the comments about it! i'm always kind of slow to accomplish a bow, and in this case i stepped foreward in 1/2"-steps over a loooong period of time.
my advice if you are insecure tillering a certain a piece of wood: go slooooow!
the sapwood is of irregular thickness all over the bow but it was an unviolated yearring! pictured below is the sapwood next to the upper tip!
it is a low density piece of yew pouched in a cologne park, but performance i'd say is good. sure delivers havier arrows!
the handle came out great: it's two stripes of thin leather wrapped parallel sized and sanded several times than i waxed it same as the wood; looks great and feels very handy
again thanks all,
frank!
ps: putting the horn on is certainly the more difficult job then forming nice tips!! thanks for the warnings beforehand!
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