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Title: MY 1st bow
Post by: hilltophickory on June 07, 2013, 10:36:21 pm
I went in reverse some reason I shoot my 2nd bow a lot more so that may be why I posted it first , but my 1st piece of wood I took a horseshoe rasp is this lil fella it is 53 inchs Osage and pulls 54 pounds at 25 inchs I did put this on a bowshop scale when I built it I wasn't aware that 53 inch bow was a harder bow too build than a longer one , the post I got wasn't very long so this is what it made.
Title: Re: MY 1st bow
Post by: Carson (CMB) on June 07, 2013, 11:24:51 pm
That is an impressive first bow!  Can't wait to see what you make next. 
Title: Re: MY 1st bow
Post by: Newindian on June 07, 2013, 11:50:12 pm
Nice to see some people can make weight on their first, you have a hinge in you upper limb though ( not half as bad as the hinge in my first)
Title: Re: MY 1st bow
Post by: Joec123able on June 08, 2013, 12:00:29 am
Good thing it's Osage. there's a hinge in upper limb but I don't expect much from a first bow mine was Ohh so terrible haha
Title: Re: MY 1st bow
Post by: hilltophickory on June 08, 2013, 08:32:24 am
Good thing it is osage, I read Dean torges book, Comstocks , andWaldorrfs book  at that time it was way before the Internet for me, Im still a rookie I learn something new on each one, Thanks for looking.         
Title: Re: MY 1st bow
Post by: Del the cat on June 08, 2013, 09:50:36 am
Excellent from such a short stave. I'm not so sure that 'hinge' is as bad as it looks...
some of it may be camera angle.
Nice work
Del