VERY nice. The contrast looks great, good job.    

I like it!!!  

It shall be done, more pics to follow. Wow ,it is intimidating working on such a masterpiece, the craftman around here are awesome. What a fine looking weapon.

Ok guys, so what's prettier the bow or the bow model?
:D

Brian's daughter is way prettier, but it's all about the bow Mike  :rolleyes:    

Smile reminds me of a good tiller at full draw. Bow looks great too. Keep up the good work Brian.

Wow...you guys amaze me!!!      

The daughter is prettier, And I have another just like her. The boys see me cleaning weapons & sharpening knives a lot.  

The bow looks good Brian....

I have a couple of them girls also......I know how ya feel.

I have put a few coats of gloss finish on the handle section. This bow is nice to finish because it has the thread wrap as a cutoff point. It`s much harder to finish the one piece bows, handleing is always an issue. I will just finish the mid section & tape off the area & finish the limbs.

A little tip I have learned is to wrap the tape backwards real tight first, rather than sticky side down. I learned the hard way years ago, if the finish is not cured yet the high tack tape will remove layers of finish, not good. I also use that method to tape off leather handles when I refinish bows, so as to not rip the smooth softer leather apart.

I am using gloss as my base coats to give the bow nice depth, it is a catalyzed varnish sprayed with an airbrush. coupla coats & then a switch to satin. A few more coats of that & we`ll rub her down with rottenstone & oil. Then the finishing wax & she `ll look showroom. More pics later.

Bigriver

Here are the limbs so far.

Dang that's a perty thing!

Nice work Brian, great tip on the masking tape.

Brian,looks great bud! I was wondering how the skins would look after finish,near the tips.Wasn't sure that the skins would flow into the limb or not? They look pretty well.

Could you get a close up of that area for future reference?

Great job Brian, she's lookin real purty.

Timo, the tips done that way imo look awesome. I have more pics if you need them. Got the satin coats on the limbs, wont be long now. Should be ready to ship by mid week.

that thing will fit right in with the rest of my bows, thanks for the efforts guys.  

LImbs are sprayed with satin & the handle is still gloss.



Shows a big difference in look, no? Next pic is the handle sprayed in satin.



I have the bow done. I will take some final pics & post them, though I am finding out it is harder to take pics that do this bow justice, than to actually do the dang finishing.

Very sweet Brian! You did us all proud son!

Is that nice or what! She's lookin like the finest selfbow ever.