Well I finaly finished this osage holmegaard bow. I started this bow a year and a half ago and put it up in the garage until I decided to pull it out for something to shoot in a selfbow class.
Its 62" tip to tip 45@28" 61"AMO The camo on the back is leperd print fabric that I harvested from a skirt from the local thrift store.I get funny looks when I look through the ladies cloths but they have the best camo patterns.
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Sorry I made my pics to big I hope thats much better. :clapper: :laughing:
Thanks Guys.
Awesome bow! You did a great job finishing the back.
very nice
NICE! I dig the camo.
That's really neat!!! Well done!!!
very nice job!
Nice bow and a cool backing.
Nice work.
I just started to make one from Maple last week. I hope it turns out as nice as your's.
Pete.
great looking bow there.
Are the limbs thicker on the end than in the middle? It looks more like a pyramid bow than a holmegaard bow.
It's a great looking bow with a nice finish, good job!
Yes the limbs are thicker at the narrow part of the limbs than at the wide part of the limbs.It looks sort of decieving because of the way I did the tips.I did the tips of the bow in this manner to cut down on weight witch increases speed and reduces hand shock.It shoots real sweet.
Fantastic job ! That's some nice looking camo on the back.
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Andy
i like this bow. i agree with Jason J, that it looks more like a pyramid than a holmegaard. But more than that, i think any bow with a significant non-bending outer limb, and stiff handle, is essentially a holmegaard. I would have made the handle much smaller, really drawing the fades back and back towards the center of the handle, but yours is still a cool bow. good work.
I took the design from page 120 of the bowyers bible vol.4 this style of bow is called the enhanced Andaman Holmegaard there are two types.
On a pyramid bow the thickness stays the same and the bow is tillerd by the width of the limb if I am not mistaken.The Holmegaard requires tillering by removing wood fom the belly and leaving the limbs much thicker at the narrow part of the limbs.Although the two bows do look alike I asure you the bow I made is no pyramid bow.
Here is the page That shows both styles of holmegaard bows.
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The bottem bow iswhere I got my design from.Thaks for the intrest.
oh right, i have seen that! Don't much like what mr. baker's doing in that bottom picture, though: looks like his bow just kinks in the handle!
I only asked because the outer limbs didn't look any thicker than the inner limbs. If they are then I take back what I said. No offense intended.
No offense taken.
Thats what I was thinking Jason,sweet looking bow either way.Nice work.
Pappy