A while back, I asked if anyone had the Bingham Mild R/D plans and Dwillo sent me his plans. I quickly built the form and have been very slow finishing the bow. I put the final coat of thunderbird on last week and just finished it with string and rest today.
This is a Bingham Mild R/D bow, which I added 1" of reflex to when I built the form (simply by dropping the outer sides of the template down 1" when routing the form).
I used black glass, 3 actionboo 72" lams, 1 core-tuff carbon and white tip wedges. The tip overlays are clear glass, white and black glass and the riser is solid phenolic. The bow turned out to be 50# @ 28" and is 62" long.
This will be my PBS donation bow for the upcoming March banquet.
Here are a few pics.
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Love the clean lines especially in black...your finish work looks awesome...anyone would be proud to own it and it should bring a great bid price...good on you!
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Glenn
Very nice bow and now we also know what your car and house looks like Bue--. LOL
Sharp! Very classy look. How does she shoot?
Sweet looking bow! Purely simple and beautiful!
It shoots quite well, I was out there this morning taking some shots with the newly finished string. The brace height looks really high in the strung pics,but it is at about 7" and works well there. Thanks for the comments.
Nice looking bow brad. Very clean and good looking accents.
You must have been on vacation filling the freezer Instead of in the shop. You made up for it with that one. Very classy A's usual Brad. Always look forward to seeing your bows.
Shawn
That bow is just awesome! Great work
Very clean and classy looking, great work!
-Jay
Nothing like the simple lines of a longbow.
WELL DONE!! :thumbsup:
Awesome Bow!!! Your attention to detail is second to none. :clapper:
Nicely done Buddy!!
Where is the full draw shot? It's required ya know! :D
I know it is Kenny..I didn't get one and I forgot the rules. I can assure you it is a seamless arc though!
It looks really good braced!
Reckon you will make Mojam this time?
Excelent work... very clean lines :)
I am really hoping to make it this year Kenny. Hopefully the timing will work out better, but last year I was in Iowa working until Friday night and just couldn't make it down. Ideally, I would like to make it down to Marshall on Wed night or Thursday morning so I can get at least a couple good days out in the heat.
You did good Brad, that is one nice looking bow.
That is a nice looking bow Brad.
How much mass weight did the phenolic riser add? I have been wanting to add some weight to a longbow without going to a solid glass riser.
Once the bow is glued up in blank form, it feels very heavy, but after the shelf is cut and it is shaped it is not too much different. Just slightly noticable and I like the heavier riser. I would guess it adds about 4 ounces to the overall final weight of the bow.
It is terrible to work with though. It is hard to get ideal fades and it takes me easily twice as long to do anything to the riser....shape it, sand it...cut it....its hard as a rock. Also, prior to the application of thunderbird I use 3 4 light coats of tru-oil to seep into the linen fibers in order to get a jet black finish. Otherwise, if you go straight to spraying, the thunderbird will sit right on top of the phenolic (and not penetrate to get that nice jet black color).
LOOKS DARN GOOD BRO YA BEEN GONE TO LONG WILL BE LOOKIN FOR YA AT MOJAM IF YA WANT YA CAN STAY W ME IM TAKIN THE 38' 5 TH WHEEL IN AGAIN COOL WHEN NEEDED BE LOL BROCK
That's a good looking bow!You did a Great job.
Ernie
Very Nice Brad.
Good to see some of your work again. :thumbsup:
Don't know how I missed this one Brad. Looks great love the simplicity of it but she's still a looker at the same time.
Very nice,sometimes less is more.