Creek reproduction hickory bow and arrows set.

[loefflerchuck]

I want to start out with this photo of where the stave came from. Even for hickory a good stave costs about $80 once you factor in shipping. I get most of my hardwood staves from MacBeath Hardwood.  I spend an hour or so down there going through various hardwoods to see what is best and hopefully get at variety of hardwood boards to pull staves from. I look for boards I can pull single ring back staves from. This hickory board was not the best but for $30 I got the stave for this bow, a 54" stave, a 45" stave and 8 good hickory arrows. It took some digging to get at this stave but not much more work than starting from a log.

[loefflerchuck]

I made it for someone in South Carolina who wanted a set like what was once used there. Bow is hickory 57" long and has a 45# draw at 27". As you can see one limb has a slight deflex. The strung profile looks off but it is not when you consider a good tiller as equal working limbs. The string is 3 ply deer rawhide. Of course rawhide stretches more than good modern strings but makes a good string once it has been stretched and a tuff long lasting one if made well.
 Ryan(Wizardgoat) sent me some viburnum shafts some time back. It is the first time I tried these shoots. They were thich and I took them down quite a bit to get the proper spine. It is a great hard shaft wood. The points are copies of the style from the area.

[loefflerchuck]

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[Peacebow_Coos]

THat's a good looking set, that person will be a happy shooter

[loefflerchuck]

Belly was heat treated too

[backtowood B2W]

Great looking set!
Recently I also tried to make my first arrows from shafts. Hazel and Dogwood. I was surprised how easy you can correct them, so I'm going to harvest more shoots and try to make the rest which I sorted out cause I thought they are to much curved!
Did you knapped the points yourself?
Again very nice!

[Hawkdancer]

Chuck,
Nice job on the set!  What width rawhide did you use, and how did you stretch it?
Hawkdancer

[Del the cat]

Clean and simple... just what I like
Del

[osage outlaw]

Great looking set Chuck! 

[BowEd]

Nice complete all around work on that set Chuck.

[burtonridr]

Cool set, very simple, great tiller.... Nice 

[Bayou Ben]

That is a nice reproduction set you made.  Very cool. 
I like how you chase rings from boards.  How thick was the hickory board you started with?

[ohma2]

Beautifull fulldraw 

[Aaron H]

More great reproduction work Chuck.

[bradsmith2010]

very nice,, I love that bow,,