Did not post a lot of bows the last few months. Did not stop making them though! Just did not have the time to take proper pictures and write something about them. Will try to photograph my latest bows in the following weeks though...
This stave came from a belly split of some larger staves. It had a dogleg on one end and the other end was the beginning of a forked branch with lots of black rotten stuff in between. Big grain swirl at this spot. To top it the rings are extremely thin so naturally I was looking forward to the challenge! (pics below)
The first plan was a straight pyramid bow because of the weird wooptidoohs at both ends of the stave. I started with roughing out to pretty close bow dimensions so I could heat the dogleg out before chasing a ring.
Heating the dogleg straight worked really well but chasing a ring took forever on this thing! I think I had to start over about 6 times. Everyime accidentally scraping to the next ring. Got it done in the end and started tillering.
Had it to brace quite fast and setup for heat treating. My heat treating caul functions as a straightening caul at the same time so after heat treating the bow came out a lot straighter as I expected. It looked good enough to flip the tips so I could not resist;-)
Added some laburnum tip overlays and arrow pass and finished the tiller.
Started shooting it a bit as I always do to check if the tiller changes. Tiller was fine but an unavoidable crack on the side which I superglued opened up a bit. I really don't like wraps on my bow so I drilled two short pins in and glued it back together.
Early/latewood ratio isn't all that so the bow looks rather thick for it's poundage but it shoots really well and did not take a lot of set. Shot a few 3d competitions with it already and it holds up really good!
Specs:
wood: Osage from Hungary
Draw weight: 48@28
Length: 64" ntn
Tip overlays: Laburnum
Handle wrap: Leather from old jacket
String: 8 strand fast flight
// stave ends and ring count
// profiles
// braced
// glued split
// details
// fd
