u/Cheweh

Hi,

60" NTN 35 lbs at 27“. 1.5" wide hickory with quarter sawn white oak tips. Dark Red fiebings dye fading to black.

I promised /u/wildwoodek I would be back with a poor imitation of bow they posted quite some time ago that really inspired me and here I am.

Made a poor attempt at spliced tips that failed for obvious reasons. I used the same piece of hickory and spliced on some oak with a V splice. My original intention was to do some sort of molly with a spice being in the thickness transition but it didn't work out. I didn't think the bow was going to work out so I shelved it for a year and a half.

I was looking for something to do the other day so I picked it back up and said what the hell.

Did a pretty good floor tiller by eye then wrapped the splice before bending it. I tillered it quite a bit then cut the wrappings off, tillered the area under the wraps, then rewrapped that area. I thought I was pretty clever coming up with this until I came across a comment from /u/addeviant-again a day or two ago who advised I do this when I was struggling last April💐.

Overall it ended up being more "molly inspired" and the tiller could be nitpicked. The overall set is very minimal but if I were to do this again I would aim for less inner limb bending. I would also like to try starting with a blank a full 3/4" thick next time.

Sorry for the novel but I think it's nice to include the speed bumps.

As always, had a ton of fun.

Cheers

Hi,

Pacific Yew - 65" NTN drawing 40lbs at 27". It's 1.75" wide at the base of the fades and pyramidal in profile. Finished with shellac and wrapped with Danish Cord and a Seal skin strike plate. Ebony tip overlays.

Everytime I set about to write a summary on a bow I've made its just excuse after excuse as to why it didn't work out the way I wanted. Well, today is no different😅

Stave came with fairly even deflex the entire length. One of my favourite bows I've made to date was pretty much a deflex bow so it really intrigued me.

I added some slight reflex at the tips and tinkered with some small alignment issues. I took three rings of sapwood off to maintain the aesthetic sapwood/heartwood ratio (good thing I did).

I really regret putting my tip overlays on so early because it prevented me from adding some extra reflex in the tips later on. I attempted to add some with dry heat afterwards and managed to crack a tip pretty bad so I decided to leave well enough alone.

The limbs aren't as balanced unbraced as I would have liked despite tinkering with it but the bow feels great in the hand at full draw.

I think I'm going to take a break from Yew and do a board bow or two 😅

Still very happy with it overall and had a ton of fun making it.

Hi,

I went a little to hard at bowyering for a while and took. A few months off.

I was watching an episode of Naked and Afraid last night where they had to make their own bows and it pissed me off so much it gave me the motivation to get back at it.

Still working on my yew stave. I have brought it down three rings on the back to keep an aesthetic sapwood/heart wood ratio which was honestly easier than expected.

Added bonus, I was in an outdoor store long ago and bought a newfoundland fox pelt. It's always been a dream of mine to make a pelt quiver.

Glad to be back at it.

Cheers!