A bow for me! (R/D longbow build along) (update 6/23 pg4)

[MoeM]

Hell those antler tips look sharp!
Generally I just can repeat I like this bow/design you developed!
Something out of the row always meets my demand to like the bow and this is kind of unique for sure...

[Buemaker]

Looking Good. Bue--.

[jsweka]

That's cool.  I definitely give you an "A" for originality with that riser and those tips.

[chackworth3]

It's bending nice!

[scars]

Nice to see some elb make it into your bow very nice. Gotta luv that arc. And the riser is looking very stealthy. Great lines my eyes don't stop in any one place. Very smooth flow from end to end focus is on all of the bow.

Great job.

[MB_Sweden]

That is a sweet bow design!
The antler overlays are awesome.

[bigbob2]

looks great tiller and nice all round. Maybe the long antler tips might add a bit more mass and drop a few FPS but doubt that would be an issue.  

[bornofmud]

Yeah I figured that too, but I'm not too worried about it.  Wouldn't do this on someones bow that was a speed nut haha.  And thanks for the kind words everybody!  I'll get some more pics up today once I figure out how I want to do the last overlays.  Need to make a proper string for it too.

[bornofmud]

Alright, so put in a lot of time refining the riser to make it fit the hand just right and cleaning stuff up.  I decided to do black glass, macassar, and antler for my final overlays.  Was a bit of a pain making the pieces for um, but after gluing up, here's what I had.

 

And after some sanding and dremel action.  Still have some cleaning up to do on them, but all the shaping is done. Also, notice that I mostly got the lines in the window cut to line up.  Was a bit tricky, but ended up mostly working just fine.  Will be much easier to keep everything lined up next time as I will be sure to do the I beams before cutting the riser block.  

   

And from a couple more angles!  This is just about the finished riser, just have to do a whole lot of sanding now!

 

 

And I also shortened the tips by about a half inch each.  They were just a bit outrageously long.  Still long this way, but much less likely to break or catch on stuff.

 

And that's it for today!  Will get some shots up of the brace and draw once I make a proper string for it, and will put some more once it's got a finish on it!  Thanks for following!!  Hope someone out there finds it useful!

[bornofmud]

Put a finish on it last night.  Little frustrated with the window, but everything else came out nice.  This macassar is amazing, hard to capture with the camera.  Overall extremely pleased with it, just got to get a proper string for it, should have it tomorrow or the next day.  Will add brace and draw shots when that happens.  

 

   

 

[Trux Turning]

That's really nice! Those antler tip are insane!!

[chackworth3]

That's nice!

[soy]

Looking sweet! What did you use for finish???

[bornofmud]

Thanks guys! I used thunderbird's quick drying poly. Intended to get thunderbird's epoxy, but bought the wrong stuff, though I really like the poly and will probably end up getting it again.  Not sure yet.  It's convenient being able to have a finished bow in 3 hours, and my current spraying setup (or lack thereof) makes it hard to keep dust and such out for long drying times.

[bornofmud]

Alright, so stripped the above poly finish off, inlayed crushed stone into the riser, and refinished with thunderbird epoxy. Here's the final shots.  Shoots great, little touchy, but I think that might be a combo of my arrows being slightly off spine and my nock point being a tiny bit too high.  Let me know if the picture size screws up the board at all.

 

 

 

 

[bornofmud]

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[delongbows]

Those inlays are awesome!!!

[MoeM]

Fantastic bow, I love your details and the uncommon design!

[bigbob2]

wow like the way you've done the stone inlays along with the bow in general. Different but excellent!