Here's how my hickory/walnut/osage bow turned out. I'll try to get a full draw pic of it this weekend. Really glad I found this site with it's great group of bowyers who are always willing to share their experience with a newbie. I made the tip overlays from quarter sawn osage after reading that suggestion on one thread and am thinking of setting my bow in a south facing window to darken the osage after reading John's tip on that. So much information here; even Roy can be helpful once in a while :D
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I just ordered a dozen cedar shafts and still need to learn how to make a flemish twist, so that gives me a good reason to quit while I'm ahead. On the other hand, I have a jumbo hickory board, a little red elm and osage, some bamboo and some birch bark sitting in my basement and a few ideas ;)
Looking good. Would like to see full draw pic.
Looks good, 'Five.
nice!
Good job!
Thanks guys! Just have to get my daughter to take the full draw pic now and hope it looks good :rolleyes: I was at 1/4" positive tiller, but after I did the final sanding and shot it for awhile it ended up about even. As usual, I was antsy to finish it and decided to leave it that way. Guess I can always go back and sand the top limb a bit more. Thanks Macbow for suggesting Unibond over TB 3 for the glue up. It did a great job filling in the small gaps and I'm sure I got a better bond with it :)
Looks nice
Great looking bow.
I shot about 250 arrows from it at my town's public outdoor range yesterday afternoon and love the way it shoots. It was the first time I shot from 20 yds after shooting a lot from 10 at my basement target over the winter. Man that 20 yd target looked so far away and my shooting was pretty ugly :eek: The arrows flew nice and straight tho, just high, low, and mostly to the left. Things got a little better after I figured out that I was torquing the bow. I had the range all to myself and got to watch a good sized whitetail for awhile out about 150 yds in the open field behind the bales I was shooting at. Pretty neat.
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