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Been out with cancer surgery and finally able to do some work on bows. Been slow and hard to twist my wife's arm to let me in the shop but finally making progress. This is a new short longbow prototype that started as building a set of limbs for Doc Nock's broken recurve. I've copied Doc's riser and...

Looks good. Any full draw pictures?

Built this for my grandson's Christmas present. It's a 3-piece takedown bow with the limb attachment bolts coming in from the riser into hidden t-bolts mounted in the limbs. To my eye it gives a cleaner line than the typical setup when the limb bolts stick above the limbs.The riser is cocobolo sandw...

If you call that ugly than what do you call good looking? Nice work

Now that is rich looking, nice!

I agree with Kev just the wrong hand but one sweet looking bow.

At first glance the riser looked big but when I saw you holding it I see she is a petite graceful lady. Nice bow.

I checked the weight on it and it's 64lb at 28" and 61 at my 27" draw. About 4-5 lbs heavier than I wanted but it will make good elk medicine in 3 weeks.

Here are some pictures of a bow I made for myself. I built it like the one I showed earlier. This is the ugly sister to that one. I haven't checked the weight on it but it started out at 75 lbs before I did the final width and rounded edges. It feels like it could have ended up at around 60 lbs. It'...

Very nice work!

Thanks for the compliments gentleman. Jacko I built this for a friend and it's right handed and I'm left handed but I shot this as well as my left handed belly mounted limb bow. I didn't get time to shoot them side by side though.

Tried a different style 3-piece for me I'd only made belly mounted limbs before. So far I like how it came out. Fiddleback maple and rosewood riser, Limbs have lams made from old maple gym flooring with black glass, timber rattler skins, and buffalo horn overlay. 64" 44lbs at 28". I like t...

Like the riser work!

Nice, love the wood.

Steve your a lucky man, have fun. Rod yours looks solid and square. Looks like plenty of horsepower too.

woodie I got the plans from www.plansnow.com

I've used Stu's spine calculator and it works well. One thing that Stu brought up about using an internal footing is that it in effect shortens the arrow because it stiffens the portion it is in. Based on that I picked up some vapor 2000 (35-55 spine) carbon shafts and cut them to 28.5 inches. Then ...

Here are some pictures of the lam sander I built by modifying a set of plans I got from Plans Now. this has a 6" wide table and drum, hand crank feed table, and will be powered by my table saw. Still have the table height adjustment parts to make and install. Looking good so far. http://i122.ph...

Be careful there's no cure for the bow building bug. Nice work.

Thanks for the tip Glenn. I've sanded it back to wood an it looks like the pores are filled so I'll pick some up and give it a try.

Thanks for the comments. I enjoy this as a hobby and it gets me special time with my grandkids. In fact 3 of my grand daughters will be staying with us for 10 days and they want to go with me to their first 3D shoot on fathers day. I'm thrilled. Yea Steve I did have trouble with bleeding over. What ...

OK here are some more pictures. Still have to sand down the 2nd coat and then spray on a few thin coats of masey but it's looking good so far. http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o241/galnmax/profiles15.jpg http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o241/galnmax/profiles8.jpg http://i122.photobucket.com/albu...

Thanks! I'll post more pictures when I get it finished.

Just put on the masey finish sealer coat. The bow is 66" 30# @ 28". Birdseye maple and paduk riser. Maple core with curly maple veneers. I like paduk!!!

Otis it appears there is a newer version here.
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/hkg3sg1@s ... ls&.src=bc

Here's a dynamic spine calculation spreadsheet. It's been posted on the leatherwall and is free. Here's a direct link http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/hkg3sg1@sbcglobal.net/vwp2?.tok=bceRJecBj15UbCko&.dir=/Public&.dnm=Dynamic+Spine+Calculator+Rev1.xls&.src=bc Here's the link to the leatherw...

Graeme did you have to do any tillering work on this bow and if so did you remove wood from the back?
Thanks and a very nice looking bow. Love the limb tips.

Matt I don't know if you have 8-32 threaded rod available there but I cut a 4 inch piece and screw it into the back of the insert with a little superglue to lock it in. Then I wrap the other end with black electrical tape to give it a tight fit so it doesn't rattle in the shaft. 4 inches gives you c...

GrahameA check this out. Fletching type that O L Adcock has developed for flight shooting.
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb. ... 57257;p=20
This post started to see how to make the quietest arrow and turned up an interesting arrow stabilization study.
BTW Good luck!

Still need to come up with something to cover the limb bolt holes in the riser. May do something with antler.