I am dumb.  I am building my second ash bow.  I hold the bow in my left hand.  When I put in the arrow rest I put it on the right side of the bow.  This is wrong, yes??  Is this still shootable for me or do I be nice and give it to someone who can shoot that way.  Talk about a learning curve.  Man

It's been done many times before. I think Ishi shot that way. Not sure though.

I made this same mistake on bow #2...I had a template, traced it, cut it...and realized the template was the wrong way...

Can you make a dual shelf (one on each side), or an ambidextrous bow...cutting another shelf on the same side..just the other way around).  I made an ambi. out of my mistake...worked well...looks funny.

Here is an all wood tri-lamb bow I was experimenting with & tried to make it ambidextrious. It is the same (righthanded) just changes the top limb to the bottom though, no lefty shelf. OOppsssssssssssssss!



So I turned it into a ambidextrious, upsidedown or rightside up all encompasing shooting shelf'ssss.



Needless to say it has been discontinued!

i did that!!  luckily my wife is left handed.   just dropped the wait and said "surprise, i made you a bow honey!!"

if the shelf is small shave it off and do one on the other side or just make it a narrow grip and add a little leather shelf...unless you made it near center shot you could be OK...
Bob

Neat Bow Joe. I am right handed and I have made myself two left hand bows so far:) Double Duh:)

Well, the biggest concern I gues that I have is the fact that it is made out of Ash.  That being said and the fact that Ash is so unpredictable I am not even sure this bow will tiller properly without snapping.  I was under the idea that when using ash you pretty much had to have a bow that was 2 inches wide at the handle.  true?nottrue?  I will get pics here tomorrow to show.

if I was you I would send it to me and start a new one. That way you wouldn't have to look at it. ;-)

Don't really have to have a shelf unless you really want one. Shoot off the hand either side upside down or however. Make sure your feathers are smooth though!

Here are some pics of bow number 3 in question.  Will this work opr do you think the Ash will be too weak?