Osage Holmegaard Bow

[Ricky S.]

Well I finaly finished this osage holmegaard bow. I started this bow a year and a half ago and put it up in the garage until I decided to pull it out for something to shoot in a selfbow class.
Its 62" tip to tip 45@28" 61"AMO The camo on the back is leperd print fabric that I harvested from a skirt from the local thrift store.I get funny looks when I look through the ladies cloths but they have the best camo patterns.
 

[Ricky S.]

Sorry I made my pics to big I hope thats much better.      

[Ricky S.]

Thanks Guys.

[bjansen]

Awesome bow!  You did a great job finishing the back.

[walkabout]

very nice

[2treks]

NICE! I dig the camo.

[vanillabear?]

[ron w]

That's really neat!!! Well done!!!

[scottm]

very nice job!

[Pat B]

Nice bow and a cool backing.

[Pete W]

Nice work.
I just started to make one from Maple last week. I hope it turns out as nice as your's.

Pete.

[DVSHUNTER]

great looking bow there.

[Jason Jelinek]

Are the limbs thicker on the end than in the middle?  It looks more like a pyramid bow than a holmegaard bow.

It's a great looking bow with a nice finish, good job!

[Ricky S.]

Yes the limbs are thicker at the narrow part of the limbs than at the wide part of the limbs.It looks sort of decieving because of the way I did the tips.I did the tips of the bow in this manner to cut down on weight witch increases speed and reduces hand shock.It shoots real sweet.

[Swissbow]

Fantastic job ! That's some nice looking camo on the back.

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Andy

[yewsage]

i like this bow.  i agree with Jason J, that it looks more like a pyramid than a holmegaard.  But more than that, i think any bow with a significant non-bending outer limb, and stiff handle, is essentially a holmegaard.  I would have made the handle much smaller, really drawing the fades back and back towards the center of the handle, but yours is still a cool bow.  good work.

[Ricky S.]

I took the design from page 120 of the bowyers bible vol.4 this style of bow is called the enhanced Andaman Holmegaard there are two types.
On a pyramid bow the thickness stays the same and the bow is tillerd by the width of the limb if I am not mistaken.The Holmegaard requires tillering by removing wood fom the belly and leaving the limbs much thicker at the narrow part of the limbs.Although the two bows do look alike I asure you the bow I made is no pyramid bow.
Here is the page That shows both styles of holmegaard bows.

The bottem bow iswhere I got my design from.Thaks for the intrest.

[yewsage]

oh right, i have seen that!  Don't much like what mr. baker's doing in that bottom picture, though:  looks like his bow just kinks in the handle!

[Jason Jelinek]

I only asked because the outer limbs didn't look any thicker than the inner limbs.  If they are then I take back what I said.  No offense intended.

[Ricky S.]

No offense taken.