Well, the bow just sat through a good part of the spring with turkey season going in full swing and then bowfishing taking us up through Memorial Day weekend...  On Memorial Day it rained here in southern Indiana and I just spend several hours sanding on the bow...  I started out with 150 grit... went to 220 grit... then to 300 grit... going over the bow with each of them... looking and feeling for any rough spots, file marks or tool marks... especially paying attention to the string grooves, smaller, tighter places...

One little tidbit of advice Monte shared that was a tremendous help to me was to take the bow outside in the sunlight... the natural sunlight shows a lot more imperfections, etc.  I found this to be true for me especially compared to florescent lighting...  my eyes aren't just what they used to be even with cheaters... in fact I found myself taking my contacts out (near sighted) or leaving them out which allows me to see much better without any correction...

I sanded for several hours hoping to have it ready to go when I was able to next visit Monte's... which I was able to do the Friday of Cloverdale shoot... The wife and I went to Cloverdale Shoot, the 30th Anniversary for the day and piddled around and shot a little, bought some stuff and piddled around for the biggest part of the day... I'd texted Monte if he would be home from work when we came back through that I'd like for him to check the bow and see how much more sanding needed done...  We set up a time and we stopped by...  He looked it over and said... looks like it's ready to be sprayed... The sweetest words that I've heard in a long time... HA!

Monte sprayed the first coat the next day, which was my wedding anniversary and I was off gallivanting with the wife, and not helping him...  Monte sent a picture and I was so excited to see this coming together...

I then twisted up a string out of 450+... that's been my favorite material for several years... have it stretched out, served up and even some wool silencers installed just waiting to get used...

And here's the final product...

Some inside pics first...

And then some outside pics...

And a couple final pics...




Hope you enjoyed... sorry it took so long to finish up...  I'll post pics of the wife's bow when it's finished... We put hers on hold wanting to get mine finished up for sure to hunt with this fall...

Till next time...  Hunt hard!  Hunt safe!
Jonathan

 
I was recently thinking about this build and wondering what had come of it. Now I see!!! Looks like you and Monte teamed up to make a beautiful bow. Nicely done.

Yea that's a very beautiful bow!

NICE

Nice!  You had a good teacher.

I like that a LOT! very well done

Great job!!

Thanks guys...  It was a lot of fun...

Jonathan

Nice