First shots from my finished board bow...

[halfseminole]

So I threw together some el quickie arrows to fling from my recently completed red oak board bow and took it out with a friend to shot it in some more.  At first it was a little hard to control, but increasing the brace height helped immensely (not sure why, if someone knows please enlighten me.)

The pics with my hands are for perspective, though yes, my hands look horrible.  That's why I asked about easier methods to make the next bow.  The opening is roughly 4", and almost completely obscured by privet hedge.  I'll get a picture from a few feet back tomorrow for perspective.











I'm gonna try to get my wife to take a picture of me with it at full draw-I think I could use the critique.

But, these pics are here for an actual reason: thank you to the people who have answered my inane questions.  This is extremely addictive.

[Echatham]

ummm.... im not getting anything out of those pictures.... did you post the wrong ones?

[jsweka]

I see a hand with a ring on a finger.
I think you might need to edit your original post.

[halfseminole]

I circled (or some approximation) the arrow shaft in this one.  I realized looking at it it IS hard to see in there.  In my elation at making the shots I didn't think about would they be able to just look at it and see-I didn't have a target set up, this was my first real time trying to shoot the bow in.  I would have been happy if it just threw a stick.