New Osage with 1st snake skin

[Okie]

This is a bow that I worked on at the Oklahoma Expo. It is very thin ringed and has a lot of zing to it. The skin is one a friend of mine found on the road and gave to me. It is the first snake skin I have done. I think it turned out ok. I split the skin down the back and used each side for each limb. It was barely wide enough. The tip overlays are maple and cocabolo. I didn't get the perfect glue lines I had hoped for on the tips. It has 5 coats of Teak oil and 3 coats of poly. I think the Teak oil made the maple look like bone.
It is 60# @ 28" and 62" ntn.
Thanks for looking.

[DanaM]

Very, very nice Okie I think with the front view profile you hit the tiller quite nicely
Any chance of a unbraced picture?
Skins and overlays look very good.

[Okie]

Thanks Dana. I added the unbraced picture in the original post. Sorry for the bad picture.


John

[Ranger B]

Nice bow.  I love those timber rattler skins.  They are hard to come by.  I've tried to find them for sale with no luck...you have to find them still rattlin'  :-)

[PeteC]

Nice bow John!It looks like it wants to be taken to the woods and put to work.Good huntin'.  God Bless

[Pat B]

Nice John. Tiller looks great and you did a nice job with the skins. Timber rattlers skins lend themselves very well to splitting lengthwise.      Pat

[Okie]

Thanks for the kind words guys.


John

[George Tsoukalas]

It's a beauty. Congratulations! Jawge

[OldBow]

You've got to be proud of this one. Bookmarked, too, for Self Bow of the Month

[Pat B]

John, If you notice the skin coming off at the tips(especially the upper), you might consider a thread wrap at each end to hold it down. I've started doing thin on all or the skinned bows I do.      Pat

[cowboy]

Very nice weapon John! Beautiful package overall - let us know when you harvest something with it and good luck..

[Okie]

Pat, that's what I've thought about. The more I string and unstring it the worse it's getting. The other end seems fine. I guess I should take more care when unstringing it. I'll try it tonight and see how it looks. You got any pictures of yours?


John

[Justin Snyder]

Sweet looking bow.   

[robbsbass]

That is one of the nicest bows I have seen in a lomng time. How did you do the arrow rest.

[Okie]

That is one of the nicest bows I have seen in a lomng time. How did you do the arrow rest.

The floppy rest if one that I finally done that, I think, looks "clean". All the other floppy's I've done never seemed to line up or flow with the handle. This one I cut a strip 1/2" wide and then cut a slot in the side plate for it to fit thru. On the back side the floopy is folded back in oppisite directions and glued down. After glueing it with contact cement I feathered it out on my belt sander to make it smoother. Clear as mud? Maybe on the next one I'll try to remember to take pictures of it before I put it on.


Thanks for the comments


John