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Marc St Louis:
This is a bow I recently made for someone in CZ.  This is about as heavy an Elm bow as I've ever made.  It's 74" N to N and pulls 120# @ 32".  Here's a few pictures, I won't bother with one of me trying to pull it back by hand as I can only get it back about 18".









This is the full draw

adb:
Nice bow, Marc. Is it a selfbow or did you back it? Also, what kind of elm?

Marc St Louis:
It's backed with a few layers of tung oil and shellac, in other words it's a selfbow.  It's not White Elm and it's not Rock Elm.  Could be Grey Elm or Red Elm.  Frankly I gave up a long time ago trying to identify the different species and subspecies of Elm.  All I know and care about is that it is a decent piece of Elm

Del the cat:
Mighty fine to get 120 out of a piece of Elm with almost no set.
It's obviously/presumably not the same as the Elm we used to get in the UK (Dutch Elm disease killed most of it) it looks much paler.
Still damn fine to get 120 out of anything without much set, and it's not overlong either.
I'm V impressed, just wish I could pull 120 :(.
We had a guy at the club the other day saying his bow was 102, I didn't want to join in the macho stuff at first but eventually took it, puuled it back to my ear and pronounced 'no way is that more than 90! '
He went and weighed it...came back and told me it was 80!.
Del

Marc St Louis:
It's actually more like 125# but I can't shoot it in and I figure it will lose a bit as the guy I made it for shoots the bow in.  I can pull a 90# @ 32" bow back but when the draw weight climbs to well over 100# I can only get the bow back to 80# at best.

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