Well I took it to a shoot the other day and it shoots great.
I'm not sure if the tiller is spot on but it looks pretty close to me. The hoopdee doos make it tuff to tiller for sure. You guys tell me what you think of the tiller. I took pics of the left and right side cause of the hoopdee's and character in it.
She finished out at 62.5 ntn 51# @ 28" I was shooting for 50# but I think I can live with it LOL
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Tell me what you think guys.
Stiks
man i love those character bows and i don't think they get a whole heck of alot better than yours.
Nice. I think it will survive as is and sometimes we live with good enough on character bows. But if you want to do anything on it, give it a few scrapes outer half on the bottom and then maybe a few inner half on the top. You might have to weaken the top a bit more to catch up with the bottom.
Nice job!
Well done. I like it. Jawge
Thanks Guys.
John I was thinking the same as you and might give it a few more swipes and call it good. I think i'll shoot it a little more and see where she settles in at but I think it will still need it.
Stiks
I like her Stiks! That's a damn nice bow dude.
She looks good. Ain't character bows fun!
I wish I could do as well.
Nice job, Sticks. Cool bow.
Stan
Pat you ain't kiddin them character bows are fun. I like them better than any but I love'em all.
Thanks for the kind words guys. Planning on deer hunting some with this one this fall. Also Planning on one for the next bow swap.
Stiks
looks great stiks. im in agreement that the top limb might need a few swipes if it doesnt even out after shooting it a bit. excellent job.
looking good sticks. I like the character ones two!
Well I shot it some more and decided to give a few more scrapes. I hit it about 5 or 6 swipes on the tip half of the lower limb and about 11 or 12 on the fade half of the upper limb and she looks better and still shoots great.
I am gonna call it done and get me some flint head arrows finished up for deer season and see if she's got any mojo. I think I am gonna name her "One Eye" for the hole in the bottom limb.
Stiks
Love it!
Kris,,, WOW!
Real nice,,, you certainly have the tallent for it.
:archer: :clapper:
Nice job Kris. That's a very nice piece of wood. I'm always amazed how you guys do these character bows. I'm already struggling when it comes to tiller a straight one. That's why I do glass bows, they are much easier to build... hahaha !
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Andy
Nice job. Good work on the tips.
and thanks to John Scifres for giving the tilering advice.
Yeah I agree thanks to John for tillering advice.
I shot it a little more after that and did dececide to hit a few more swipes. I thought it was shooting good before but after I hit again where John reccomended and it shoots alot better.
It finished in at 48 lbs @ 28". I ordered some tonkin cane shafts and have a few flint heads that Bill skinner made me and plan to make meat with her this fall. I will post a finished pic of her later at full draw.
The tips are layered leather soaked in ca glue to harden them, I thought it was nice touch.
Andy, hows your boo bow I built holding up? Hope she's still shooting good. That was actually my first shooter that I finished so I hope she's a good one. Maybe next year you'll get drawn for one of these character bows in the trade.
That was my original plan for it but I trashed the one I was working on and went with a safer plan to get you bow by the deadline.
Stiks
That is very cool Stiks! Good job. :clapper:
Very Nice. I've always wanted to try one of those.
Beautiful bow Kris! Great talking with you today......
God Bless!
Yeah, nice .
You to Bobby.
I will have to pick you out a good stave and build you a character bow and do some trading.
Stiks
QuoteOriginally posted by Stiks-n-Strings:
You to Bobby.
I will have to pick you out a good stave and build you a character bow and do some trading.
Stiks
Sounds like a plan Kris!
How cool... and from just plain wood... :clapper:
I love the color of the bow too...
You give hope... :)
Much Aloha... :archer2:
Nice!
Wrt to John's comments, I saw that as well. And other than being generally timid about offering advice on a thread like this, on a character bow in particular I'd want to see the rested profile, and want to know what the lower limb looked like, how and how much set it took, over the course of the project. I should also mention a character bow (twist) will frequently show you a different tiller one side compared to the other, which you probably already appretiate since you posted both.
But just bald, flatfooted, only looking at the one pic, inner limb lower looked like it bent a little generous.
Again, congradulations on a great project.
cool bow kris. That makes me want to work on a few of mine.
DCM,
I did tweek the tiller a little after these pics. It had a bit of natural set in the bottom limb that came back some even after I heat treated it. It shoots great and I added some skins to her so I will post some updated pics. both braced and unbraced.
Stiks
Great job Stiks. :thumbsup:
I will be trying a Osage in a coulple of months, my first, Ill be happy if it just stay together.
Again GREAT JOB