If your next bow you make was going to be made for yourself and you had any option what would it look like?
I think the next bow I make for myself will be a one piece longbow and will have a Zircote riser with diamondback skins on the back and cocobolo veneers on the belly with a cocobolo overlays on the back of the riser. :)
Zircote & zebra riser with stained natural boo limbs & buffalo horn tips.
My block of zircote has a crack, so I'm putting that one off and building a plain old chechen riser with elm limbs to compare to one with action boo limbs built to the same specs to see if I can feel any difference.
Just finishing a Honduran rosewood & osage riser with boo limbs for my brother and its awful sharp.
A snakey osage selfbow with copperhead skins.
Problem is, I have neither of the things I need to make it :(
BBO r/d black horn tips 64 tip to tip curly maple riser
Osage selfbow. The snake ones are cool, but for me a clean, straight bow with answer overlays is what i like. Maybe a bit of sapwood on the back as well.
Wheels are turning. Ive got my veneers (Black and white ebony) Just looking for some really good looking Coco to go with it for the riser. It would be a take down because I travel to hunt to make things easier.
Shawn
I never know until it is built. It will be a selfbow though.
Selfbow and like Pat it depends on the wood. Jawge
Osage
:dunno: I'm still figuring it out....
i love my snakey osage the most- right now- but am learning to work with this yew, and liking it more and more.
mayabe a character yew, with lingcod skins and shark skin handle- with antler tips- oh wait, thats the one i am building for thingiemajig-cant seem to remember his name- but it is sure a bow i would like to make for myself someday!!i have been collecting materials for this bow for a few years now.
All I want is a bow that puts an arrow where I want it to. The added benefit would be if it looked super snakey and had holes the size of fists... note I said holes :)
BBO R/D with dark wenge handle with a couple of thin strips of osage in it and black cowhorn tips. I've got that handle and tips but gotta get more boo and osage.
Hick backed osage, r/d or just flipped tips. But i'm also looking forward to a hunting weight snakey/rollercoastery hackberry stave that's staring me down :)
The bow I am going to build myself for this years adventures will be bamboo backed osage from the slats Chisler sent me for Christmas. Going to be 66" ntn or thereabouts and 50ish to make sure I have plenty of knockdown power for the rabbits I wind up hunting when I SHOULD be watching for deer. Straight Hill style natural and beautiful is what I have in mind.
Still thinkin bout a dirty ash.... :laughing:
62" sinew backed mulberry, with copperhead and cherry bark...... Have it drying right next to ********'s bow
A R/D 1 piece longbow with a rosewood riser and a turkey call to match, NO, wait already got that for my trade bow, right now it's the best thing going for me. It shoots hard, fast, and where I'm lookin, don't get much better than that....Dan
Now there's a million dollar question.It would be a take down recurve 50-60#. I think a little bocote with some maccasser ebony for the riser. Limbs either tiger striped myrtle or some nice bocote.Now on the other hand zebra and bolivian rosewood has a nice ring to it. What the heck might have to just build two personal bows.
Hill style longbow, 68", 55# @ 28", two tone riser of maple and walnut, brown glass on the back, gray glass on the belly. A real "retro" looking bow.
Good question - still trying different woods and designs - could take me a while - only on my 6th or 7th bow.
I start Physical Therapy for the left shoulder next wed. Results over the next few weeks or months will decide the config of my next bow!
I working on one now a 3 pcs longbow/recurve hoping for a fancy one we will see
Some day I hope to make a super snakey Osage, with a couple holes.
Good question, right now I'd go with a 50's style recurve with an ebony riser and quilted maple veneers.
-Jay
Black walnut and myrtle 62" recurve with buffulo horn tips.
52" static recurve, perfectly clean osage selfbow that pulls 55# at 27". Anybody got one?