heres a few pics of a 60" statics tip yew i'm building for turkey season.

It will have blesbok horn tip and underlays and choke cherry bark back.

Gonna be sweet I think.

 

 

 

 

I really like working this yew. Great stuff, gonna have to get my hands on some more for sure.

Stiks

looks like your gonna have a shooter soon.

I'm working on a static hickory right now.  My first one.  Hopefully gonna get it on the long string tonight.  I would love to try some yew or osage. All I have got to work with is hickory.  Got a dogwood stave drying right now also.

I've got some yew coming, can't wait to get started on it. I also got "Billets to Bow" by Glenn St.Charles to add to my library which got me excited about working with yew.

Your bow is looking very good. Nice job!

Bona You are gonna love working that yew. I got to get me some more!

Briar, Where are you from Louisville? should be some osage growing in KY somewhere.

I got my horn for tip under and overlays. Gonna bad to the bone! I am super fired up about this bow.

I have been working on four bows this week.

Stiks

Looking good sticks. I"ve got a piece too, but I'm still plannin with it.

I got my horn today and started working with it. got to get my belly overlays done and glue to belly on the tips. I decided to do a horn overlay on the handle as well. It is gonna be sweet I hope.

Glued on some horn today, should be back on the tillering tree tomorrow More pics coming I promise.

Kris, with the extra physical weight of the horn you may need to narrow the tips pretty good to reduce their weight. No need to do this until later though. Just thought I'd mention it.

I was thinking about that today Pat. I am gonna narrow then pretty good (as much as I can get away with) I left them natural and thinned my horn from the back side and I should have some real nice looking tips on this bow.

I thinned the last six inches of the tips to about 3/16 when I decided to underlays for that reason as well. Don't want this rattlin my chops and jumping out my hand. LOL

She blew up today.Had about 2" on tiller to go and I was exercising it on the tree and BOOM! She snapped about 9" from the tip.

Oh well time to start another.

Sorry about that Kris. Did she fail on the back?

She just snapped clean Pat. I think maybe it got brittle from the heat. It was getting a little thin out to the tips and I was tillering off the sides. looked like the belly folded and POW! I think I'll make a youth bow out of it down the road.

I'm glad I didn't have the cherry bark on it yet or I would have been ticked. This is the first one that's ever blew apart on me and it was kind of exhilarating in a way.

To top it off I was heating the horn to try and salvage it and cut my index finger to the tendon and had to get 8 stitches. What a day.

Bummer. Some days are like that. Sorry about your bow.

Sorry Stiks, know how you feel.

I'm wondering if I wasn't really pushing on the length with a 28" draw. I really figured that 60" would be fine but maybe not. I really don't have any rhyme or reason why she blew other than the heat and and I just over stressed it to fast.

I got to remember..... Patience, patience, patience! Still working on that from time to time.LOL

Stiks

QuoteOriginally posted by Stiks-n-Strings:
Bona You are gonna love working that yew. I got to get me some more!

Briar, Where are you from Louisville? should be some osage growing in KY somewhere.

I got my horn for tip under and overlays. Gonna bad to the bone! I am super fired up about this bow.

I have been working on four bows this week.

Sticks,
I am from Williamsburg.  Last town on I-75 south before TN line.  I have scoured the country side and can't find any around here.  There is plenty in western ky and some up north also but I seem to be below the line of its growing preference.  I've heard tale of it growing around here and even found one in a yard but nothing out where I could cut it.
John

Stiks