Well, here it is all finished up. This bow is pretty neat. The top limb is snaky Vine maple from Gordon with a black walnut tip overlay. The matching lower limb blew into about three pieces on me after it had already been shot a bunch, the tiller was perfect, I think it was just to dry since I had done heat corrections on that limb several times during tillering. That coupled with the knots on the back, anyways...The new lower limb is made of Wild Apple I had cut on my mothers property. The original top limb to that bow blew after having several arrows put through it also. This time it was my fault as cut to deeply into the handle for a arrow shelf and violated the splice that held the billets together. Lesson learned there. Anyways, as you could imagine I was pretty upset about the vine maple bow because it was really pretty and a nice shooter, not to mention the only piece of Vine maple I ever laid my hands on. I don't know what exactly made me think of the lower limb of that apple bow, for some reason I had saved it in the closet in the computer room. Well I got it out and started looking at it and got to thinking.....You know this is almost the same length, draw weight, and handle shape/size as the VM bow was......I thought about splicing the to together to make one good bow but I wasn't sure how to go about it since the handle areas where so narrow and one had already been Z spliced and the other one W spliced...I got to wondering if I could cut the through the handle the other way, you know belly to back since it would give me more gluing surface...? So, I figured ah why not? What did I have to lose? Right. Well, hear is what she turned out like. I added a raw hide grip wrap to ensure the strength of the splice, and some Rat snake trimmings I had laying around from Greg's bow. She is 64" ntn and pulls 55#@27" It also has a ambidextrous shelf. Well enough rambling what do you all think?
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