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Black locust 60# at 28”
Mo_coon-catcher:
Here’s a black locust bow I made at a walk back in Time event recently. I couldn’t shoot while there so I could get up to the point of shooting in there but had to shoot in and tweak a bit once I got home. The roughed out bow got handled by LOTS of school kids that came through to learn.
The tree the stave came from had a punky core and the evidence of that shows in the discoloration on the belly in spots. So I decided to to heat treat to reduce stress on the limbs a little. I got about 1” total set with the lower limb having some knots causing a bit of extra deflex. The limbs are 2” wide from the fades to midlimb and has a double taper from midlimb to the tips being about 3/8” at the nocks. The overlays are desert iron wood and very hard. The handle wrap is stamped 5/6oz Herman oak leather, stitched with a single strand lacing braid. The handle wrap bumps up to the edge of the shelf to add a little useable width. It’s not a speed demon shooting 550gr arrows around 150fps. but should be quite stabile over time.
Thanks for looking
Kyle
Mo_coon-catcher:
Some more
Mo_coon-catcher:
Last batch
I wasn’t working in this bow in the picture, I had moved onto roughing out a Honey Locust ELB, but it shows the setup
organic_archer:
Clean lines! Love that profile. 150fps will get the job done just fine.
Mo_coon-catcher:
Thanks,It’s one of my favorite profiles to work. May not be the fastest but it sure is stabile, and looks good. I agree, it’s plenty of performance. Especially since I was maybe hitting 27” when shooting through the chronograph.
Kyle
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