First go with Black Locust - FINISHED with pics

[jameswoodmot]

Grip is on ready to dry.

Been shooting it a bit today. I’m pretty pleased. 171 with 8.5gpp which was a horrible experience on my fingers and 152 with 10.6gpp. I’ve got nothing on Selfbowman’s new bow but I’ve been wanting to make myself target bow for a while. I have confidence in this bow which is nice.

Here’s a video of it on the tiller, I’d really love to know if you think I could improve the bend. I tried to keep the bend more on the inner limb where it is wider and to not get a hinge inside the flips but I’m not sure if there is too much bend on the inners and maybe I should have been a bit braver in getting the outers to bend?

https://youtube.com/shorts/RNZXojXHQEQ?si=e04FYcLQwQqlTk4e

I would have liked a bit more draw weight from it but it was starting to show some set. Is 37lb from this much BL typical? It feels like a lot of bow for being relatively light in draw weight.

[Pappy]

Nice bow, the tiller looks pretty good to me, if anything look like a little flat spot a few inches out on the right limb not quite to mid limb.probably wouldn’t have mentioned it if you hadn’t ask. 😊Pappy

[jameswoodmot]

Thanks Pappy!