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This is boo backed hickory board bow with zebrawood handle. It started out 64" ntn but it was sickingly slow. I cut it to 59.5" and tillered again. The top limb is a bit stiff yet.
The arrow is river cane with a stone point. The shot was from 20 yards. I can keep it that close or closer but only by shooting it cock feather in. The draw weight is abot 65 @ 28 right now. When I scrape that top limb some more I should be able to drop to about 60? She's fairly quick!
As I feared the boo split about 1/2" on the crown where the shelf meets the sight window. I got some super glue down in there but it popped loose again. Should have done a bulbous handle.
I think I'm going to do a rawhide patch from the beginning of each fade.
I would bet the boo cracked because of the hinges close to the riser. When you tiller out a BBO bow, you want a nice smooth 1/4 moon limb profile from fades on out to about 8 inches from the limb tips. In this pix below you can see the hinges.
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