Well after a lot of reading here, a couple books, and a class taught by Ryan and Pat O'sullivan I finally made my first bow. It's an osage bow 42# @ 28" and 64" long. My target was 45# so not bad. It came off at 44# and lost 2 lbs. after shooting it in. I used a brown beaver tail for the grip and rest and brown leather dye to stain it. Also notice the cool knot/hole on the bottom limb near the tip. There's a lot of stuff I need to improve upon and a lot of fine finish details I have to learn and develop the patience for but I had so much fun I had to make a new work bench for all the future ones I plan to make.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice bow and pretty incredible for your first. With teachers like Ryan and Pat I'm not surprised!

Great lookin bow, congrats.

WOW! Great looking bow.    That turned out very nice, I like the designs on the limbs. VERY sharp.
Sure looks a lot better than my first bow. Or my second or third...

Dang Bud,

yer holdin out on me!!

SAWEET!!

Very nice, Great job!

Good looking bow!      

looks great, I see a lot of zero's before the #1 looks like you are planning to build a lot more bows!! congrats on your first of many.

Thanks guys! I appreciate all of the kind words. One of my next projects in the next couple months is going to be a take-down osage bow. Good catch Robert, I plan on doing lots more bows! You guys are right it gets addicting.

Very nice, congrats on such a great looking first bow!

very nice, congrats.

Very nice. Congrats on a great first bow,

Beautiful bow T.J.  Is that from the piece you bought at ATAR?  Very nice.

Aaron

Very nice job,Looks like Ryan and Pat done a good job teaching.Like the colors.
  Pappy

Nice job.  Congrats on your first bow.

very cool!  I don't think I'm ready to try self bows yet.  Again - very cool.

Very nice looking bow. Jawge

Great bow

Looking good TJ      

Great looking first bow TJ. Where did you get the beavertail?Tan it yourself??  Bob