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Question on tillering a snake bow?

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bentstick54:
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Pat B:
Arvin, on some snaky staves each snaky growth ring travels a different path. Many of those sneaky staves usually don't survive.

Selfbowman:
Pat the survival rate is why I don’t build them very often. I will put tip overlays on this bow and put it on a long string and see how it bends at 4-8”.

bentstick54:
Arvin, a better way to say on mine above is it rolls in a loose grip. When just held in the hand unstrung it rolls in the hand because of the mass weight of wood favoring one side.

Eric Krewson:
I must be lucky; I have never had a snaky bow fail. I have one out there that probably has 100K arrows through it and is still shooting, others disappeared around the country and I don't know where they are now. When I make a snake bow, the new owner wants one with all the bells and whistles which includes snake skins, tip overlays and burl wood inlays in the sight window. I suspect these bows are babied somewhat and not everyday shooters. With that said, I never made a snake bow with wide sweeping curves like Arvin's project, my bows all had tighter snakes.

I did notice the other day that an old friend from long ago used one I made about 20 years ago to win the primitive class in the Bama state championship this year. Someone had take a picture of Tim out on the course and I noticed that he was still shooting the bow that I auctioned off to raise money for the Alabama Children's Hospital. His bid was so generous that I made a freebie BBO for his wife as a thank-you for his bid.

I put an inlayed a burl wood name plate in each of the bows, this was in the BBO.

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