This is my first character bow. I cut a limb off my neighbor's oak tree and put it up to season a while back. I only had a few seasoned staves and I didn't really feel like working on any of the others. I thought this would be a trash stave and it wouldn't make a bow. I knew there were a few small knots in it but I wasn't really sure how making a hole worked. I figured that out pretty quick when I pushed the little branch in and out it popped. That may have been the highlight of my day.
I heat treated the belly after I had it tillered and that gave it some weight and threw off the tiller. I was fine with that since it added some needed draw weight.
Sorry guys, I didn't take any measurements at all. What you see is what you get. Ain't no natives ever measured anything.
Agave string tied to bottom limb
Hole in the wood
Side nock as usual.
Braced
unbraced
Full draw
The tiller still seems a little bit off to me. I'm not really sure how to approach correcting it as I've already scraped and scraped at the areas I felt needed to lose some wood. Anyway, I'm excited to finally have made a bow that has holes in it. When I first got here a lot of character bows were being posted and I just thought, one day that will be me...
