Hey all. Seeing all the bows with snakeskin back i decided to put one on my bow as well. Problem is, here where i live there are no snakes. It is also not easy to get a real snakeskin. Thats where the photo-transfere comes into place. I used this technique to create an graffitti-bow the other day. Just printed some snake-skin samples and transfered them on the wood, finished with lineseed oil varnish.
Hi all! Inspired by a vid of Clay Hayes, i decided to try a r/d design out of one piece of wood by myself. As i do not have easy acces to osage i choose BL as material for it, because its tough stuff and should fit my idea. The bow is 66" ntn, 1.6" wide at the fades and comes with slightly twisted limbs but only a bit so i could ignore that. I have bent the wood into shape with a heatgun only, using a jig. To get the Handle bent i had only poor options (took what was lying around in the shop) so there is much room for improvement.
The wood developed some cracks: the limbs while drying after the heatthreating, the handle while bending - i think cause of the smal diameter of what i had to use for that. The cracks on the limbs do not go throuh all the limb thicknes and seem to be more on the surface so i only filled them. As the handle does not bend at all, i (more or less) ignored those. To build up the handle i glued some leatherstrips on it and wraped it provisional (will change that later). I have shoot some 300-400 arows yet, it lost some of its form but seems to stay stable by now. I will try another one next month but will try to get a better setup to bend the handle and will give the jig a slightly different form. Maybe i will go with steam first and heatgun afterwards in order to try to make it loose a bit less of its form. It pulls
43#@28".
Dear Bowyers! Some days ago i got a 59" piece of Calycophyllum multiflorum wich i consider to be a related species of lemonwood (plz correct me if im wrong here). I thought of backing a slice of it with hickory and gluing with an inch of backset - aiming for a bith bow - would that sound to be a realistic plan or should i use it in another way? (Iam fine with 26" of drawlenght here) Thx for advice!
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