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Experimental bow - English Ash, 95# @ 32" finished pics.

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Del the cat:
BTW.. how long is it?  O:)
Del

WillS:
It started out at 83" and now it's 77" nock to nock.  It's 40mm wide in the centre by about 30" with a fairly flat belly.

Cameroo:
Nice job with a sketchy piece of wood Will.  Hopefully it will go on to live a long and productive life!

WillS:
Here's some photos of the finished bow.

The tiller at full draw has been tweaked slightly, to bring the right limb round to take some movement away from the middle, and I took some wood from the sides of the tips to ease them round as well, but I can't be bothered to go and take another full draw shot, as I hate doing it in general and it looks quite a bit different in the hand so it's still not particularly accurate.  However, here's a pic of the terrible hinged, whip-ended tiller to show just how bad it was, before piking.   

Note, there are horn nocks on this first tiller shot.  They had to be cut off, drilled out (not easy...) and re-glued.  I always glue my tips on with superglue, and this has convinced me to keep doing that - these things did NOT want to come off.  Not even direct heat made this glue release.

Anyway, here's how NOT to make a bow...



And here's how she looked before tips went on, and tiller was tweaked



Here's the bow at brace



Horn nocks




The back, with the cambium left on and two coats of Danish Oil to bring out the colours slightly



The depth of the belly at the handle



And the tips of the bow



This was a lot of fun, and as Del said above it's really nice sometimes being able to make "bonkers" bows, as it lets you unleash things you've read or heard about but don't want to try on nice pieces of wood, and there's nothing like the satisfaction of seeing a bow that should NEVER succeed reaching 32" of draw length. 

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