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turtle:
 This is a bow i just finished for a friend of my great nephew. I made it from a realy bad piece of hickory that i just sawed the back flat on. I originaly backed it with brown paper,and covered the paper with rainbow trout skins. But the backing failed just as i got it finished. So i removed it and rebacked it with a single growth ring of osage. It came out at 20#@15"   38 1/2" N to N  1 1/4" at fades tapering to 1" 7"from tips 1/2" at nocks. Wraps on the limbs are part of the original trout skins.Tip overlays are purple heart. I flight shot it just for fun and longest yardage was 93 yards with shortest at 89 yards. 300gn arrow.

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turtle:
 When i glued up the osage back i put in some reflex. It held just over two inches off of the form. It still has about 1/2" imediatly after unstringing and just over 1" two minutes later.

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Pat B:
Great little bow, Turtle. I'm sure your nephew's friend will love it.   Pat

Hillbilly:
Cool little bow, and quite unique, also. I've seen several hickory-backed osage bows, but don't recall ever seeing an osage-backed hickory. Nice detail work, too.

cowboy:
Cool lookin little bow!

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