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.
![Evil >:D](http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
Agave string tied to bottom limb
Hole in the wood
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Side nock as usual.
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Braced
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unbraced
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Full draw
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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...