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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:43:56 am

Title: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:43:56 am

May I present you my first own yew:

61,8 ntn
approx. 40# @ 28" (have no measuring device at the moment)
390 g

Cheers

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:50:00 am

My plan was a bit more draw weight, but...after tillering and mounting the nocks I realized that the handle wasn't centered and that the lower limb was longer than the upper one...had to retiller and cheat with the nocks @ the handle. It's become a nice recrational-training-bow now  8)

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:52:33 am

It was a fairly perfect piece of wood - only had to remove quite lots of sapwood first...

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Danzn Bar on July 14, 2018, 07:53:07 am

Nice clean piece of Yew.
Would like to see more pics around the tips and definitely the full draw.
DBar 

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:54:24 am

Got a really nice shooter now  (-S

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Danzn Bar on July 14, 2018, 07:55:11 am

Thanks we were posting at the same time :)
Cool string nocks
DBar

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 14, 2018, 07:55:11 am

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Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Badger on July 14, 2018, 08:33:45 am

  That came out great, good job!

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Stixnstones on July 14, 2018, 10:48:05 am

Nothin wrong with that.. nice job

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Del the cat on July 14, 2018, 11:09:37 am

Sweet, love that style of bow :) Love that wood too :)
Del

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: bjrogg on July 14, 2018, 01:27:05 pm

Very nice Smik. Is it your dad's yew or his yew bow? I'm sure he's proud of it either way
Bjrogg

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: BowEd on July 14, 2018, 01:35:30 pm

Sweet looking bow from a nice piece of yew.

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: selfbow joe on July 14, 2018, 02:13:14 pm

Very nice looking bow

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: George Tsoukalas on July 14, 2018, 06:59:57 pm

Outstanding! Came out great!

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: Rākau on July 14, 2018, 07:07:03 pm

I really love those nocks! How wide is the limb just before the nock?

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: upstatenybowyer on July 14, 2018, 08:17:00 pm

Stunning.  (-S

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: TorstenT on July 15, 2018, 01:05:51 am

Great bow! Tiller, finish, overlays - all really well done! Will you add a grip cover and/or arrow pass?
Your Dad will certainly be delighted!  :)

Viele Grüße
Torsten

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 15, 2018, 03:42:19 am

thanks buddies! that are the compliments I was looking for  8)
to clearify: I'm "Dad" - it's my personal bow and my first yew - after I did one for my son ("branch") and one for my wife ("mum's yew"). Doing the "yew family line" at the moment...

Nzuka: They are approx 5/8" @ the nocks
TorstenT: No wrap - I like the wooden feeling in my hands and I like more the tillering job than the stitching and artwork job...maybe i'll start to do some extra work on my bows after I learnt the basics

By the way: It approved to be also a family bow that can be shot by 5year old sons...Finally tried to catch the magic evening light on the bow - but photography also is an art of it's own that takes time...

Cheers

Title: Re: Dad's Yew
Post by: simk on July 15, 2018, 03:43:18 am

more evening sun  (-S