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Finished composite hickory bow/ pics

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Stick Bender:
Thats a beautifull & fasanating bow Ed , you got me going just bought Karpo's book Great bow !

BowEd:
Great Ritch.....It's quite a book and an immense amount of information and testing to digest.Making a bunch of self bows first gives a person a lot better insight and understanding of info to get the best out of natural materials.
I think I'm finally through shooting this bow in and giving it the needed bracing time to see what it's going to be.I guess it's just a nice set of copperheads is about all I'm going to put on it.Too many decisions again......lol.
This bow is not even close to what a Turkish horn bow is or like although I've never actually shot an actual Turkish horn bow.This one is just my own version and theory of a lot of reflex and reduced outer limb mass weight to get a faster bow without all of the extra work that a Turkish horn bow requires.Having it hold together profile for years or even decades with proper care is definitely the goal too.

BowEd:
These composite bows are different.With having a little more reflex I mean.Just the little extra this one has recovery time from shooting can continue for days.An intial bunch the first 2 hours then a little at a time from then on.Guess that's the revealing quality of sinew being able to stretch 8 or 10 times more or so than wood.I was thinking about doing an efficiency test[like in the TBB 4 book] but that might have different readings depending on bracing and shooting time too.
Got the skins ready.Just need the titebond 3 to come in the mail.

BowEd:
Well it's been another 3 weeks and finally finished this bow up with the skins,stain & finish.Pulling almost 53#'s now @ 28".Finished mass weight is 17.65 ounces.Shoots pretty decent.Comfortable for me to shoot.Starting at about a 5.75" brace from the belly it has a high poundage gain the first 8" of draw of around an average of 3#'s per inch then the next 8" at around 2#'s per inch then the remaining 6" at 2.5# per inch.Releases with a kind of whispery snap.No hand shock I can detect.Gave it some copperheads I had.Cow horn overlays.Left it a bare bones handle.The stain on it ended up a light brown trying to get a coppery reddish type look to it.Hickory is kinda a hard for me to stain nice and evenly on the edge grain.Some finished pics of it.Kinda fuzzy though.Thanks for looking.
Rest

Brace

Full draw

Back

Belly

Handle

Tip

DC:
Very cool!

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