hickory selfbow

[Ken75]

built this one today 58 inch tip to tip 47lbs at 28 inches . flipped tips,




[/IMG]  pin knocks and turkey feathers on the back , cherry stain. feather idea came from someone else.

[Ken75]

full draw  

[beetlebailey1977]

Nice profile at brace....Like the turkey feather idea.  Looks good.  You are a bow making machine.

[TimB]

Looks nice! The turkey feathers sure are different. What did you finish it with? And now for a newbie question, how do you "flip" the tips? Do you heat it, or steam it and then clamp it to a form?

[Ken75]

thanks beetle, dritydan on PA did feathers a while back , so its not original

thanks Tim, titebond over the feathers and cherry acrylic stain, cleer gloss over that.steam the limb tips , and these i bent by hand if im not putting large bends in i just do it by feel . hold till the wood cools or like me run cold water over them (the bowyers are turning flips at that thought !!)

[George Tsoukalas]

Very well done! Jawge

[don s]

ken, so far you've built somewhere in the neighborhood of 732 bows in the last 2 weeks. give or take 3. what do you do with all these bows? don

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Man, you had me goin there for a second Ken. I didn't know what the heck that was on the bow's back?? I was wondering where you got those big fish scales......maybe a Dragon?? LOL

That's cool, I might borrow that sometime.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

semo that was my first thought until I looked closer. I thought they where carp scales or something

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Ken I forgot to say that is a sweet hickory stick. You must live  in your bow shop,LOL

[CaptainJ]

Another nice bow Ken!
I can't decide about the feathers. I look at them once and think 'nah' and then look again and think 'wow'. Pretty cool idea.

I do the cold water thing on mine too.    

CJ

[Ken75]

thanks gentlemen,for the kind words

[Dave Bowers]

Dang you are a bow building machine...great looking bow  

[Ken75]

thanks sir