Primitive Archer

And yes you can get the over the counter bear tags, I suppose either on line or at a license agent when you get here.

Dean story; when I was still pretty green as a bow maker, I tried a lot of stuff to see if it would work better than what was known at the time. One thing I did regularly was flip the top limp to the bottom limb to put the stiff limb on the bottom if I goofed up on wood removal. Apparently, Dean thought this was an abomination and said online that I was an insult to the true art of bow making.

Years down the road some troll jumped on me like they always do online and stated that I didn't know anything about bow making and I was an idiot, the usual keyboard warrior stuff.

I told the jerk that my bows had won over a dozen national championships, 40 or 50 state championships and more seconds and thirds that could be counted so I apparently knew something about bow making, that shut Mr. Jerk up.

Dean was reading the thread and stated that his bows never won anything, he never had an unkind word to say to me after that. 

I called him to order a bowyers edge tillering tool; he picked up and we had a wonderful chat for about an hour.

I sent him a tillering gizmo and included a note that he had my blessing to make them and sell them on his site if he wanted to as I considered the design "share-ware" and didn't want anything in return, he didn't respond to my gift. This may have been in the early time frame of his developing brain tumor. 

Good lookin' Bow! What do You use to black the back? I've had enough of this Heat, kickin' My Butt  . Thanks as always Pappy  , Bob.

I scored some strawberry guava a few years back, and made my current hunting bow from it.  Like many have said, just remove the outer bark to get your back.  It’s a very dense wood, maybe even moreso than Osage.  It responds fairly well to heat bending.  It’s strong in tension - I was able to get 75# at 26” and it has held up just fine.  I stained this one walnut-colored, but it started out pretty white.  Makes for an excellent shooter!

Thank you for that stickhead can you tell me how wide that limb is and how long. I am glad to hear it responds to heat i was a little worried about that.

  needed a good laugh this evening WB.
 Pappy