Primitive Archer

Here is my entry for january BOM

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73502.0.html

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This is a hickory and sinew d bow, inspired by eastern woodland folks. It's pignut hickory with 60g of deer leg sinew backing. The back covering is salmon skin tinted with burnt sienna/red ochre shellac.

Specs are 59.5" L NTN. 60.25" total.
1" wide at the handle area and narrowing very gradually to 3/8"nocks. The handle wrap is not centered, but the bow rests at center on the stick in the full draw pic.
46 pounds at 27 inches.
Nocks overlaid with water buffalo horn. Bow string silencers and handle accents are mink fur, handle wrap is sumac tanned buckskin. String is white-tailed deer leg sinew.
I covered the backing with 3 strips of salmon skin.

This bow originally was too bendy in the handle area, so i spot heat treated it. I got back to work too quick and it fretted at the fade area. I rasped that down and glued on a thin 10" bamboo belly spline that is wrapped entirely with sinew. I added the sinew backing to prevent excessive set. The repair held together surprisingly well and I was able to tiller the bow to 25". I would have lover to tiller to 27" but it's held up real nice so far and I don't want to push it any further right now. The length of the belly spline is covered by the handle wrapping. There is some natural deflex in the mid limb area.

Set at rest 3/4" and just above 1" after unstringing.  It's taken more set that I would like overall, and I don't expect to draw the tiller any further but, considering it's a fairly short bow and the journey to get here I'm pretty happy overall.
Thanks for looking!

Thanks everyone.
Jim, I have about 35 that I have built and always left the tips straight, so I thought I would broaden my scope a little bit and flipped the tips on the last 2. I have not been able to shoot tons since I did due to recovering from finger surgery, but what I have been able to shoot, I’m not noticing a big difference in performance. I could be wrong though?

Burnsie, thanks, but I’m not sure I should be your “ gold standard”. There’s lots of guys here with hundreds more bows than me, and way better. But hope one day maybe, I can step up to their abilities and quality.

There’s the money shot!   Beautiful bow and love the idea of the horn belly lam under the handle.  Seems to work just fine on the d/r bow too.  Nice work.