Thanks guys.
Wow, it is really big in cross section. Do you think you could have done it narrower and thinner or was it that particular piece of elm that dictated it? How did you make initial layout of the bow, is it gradual taper from parallel handle to the tips done freehand?
Btw, this bow looks so wild, I am imagining as a something wood elf would use. 
Yep, its a pretty big lump of wood. Could use it as a club also! Sure it could have been anything i wanted, but i wanted the heaviest i could make out of it. Just a nice little test. Well this past summer i made 4 bows i'm not strong enough shoot (yet), so this might be enough for now. There was nothing special about the wood, quite ordinary elm, but free of pin knots. I just narrowed it down with smooth taper and then started to tiller. Just leave a bit of meat around the knots and everything is cool. I don't use any rulers or gauges in the making. It would just slow me down i think. Biggest problem i had with the nocks, i had left only really small pieces of deer antler(13mm thick in the base) so i really had to tweak the nocks to make them work. They are around 10mm thick in the string loop curve, which would be comfortable for a 100 pound bow, but not for a 155 pound bow. I broke two nocks in the making.
That looks great, nice work and it does look very middle earthy 
R.D.
Well thats ok, it stays in the shelf until a strong uruk hai appears and wants to shoot it.
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