Well Here she is Fellas...
This has been the Most Confounding bow for me to date.
I stopped counting the Heating Sessions after thirty.
Initially Steam, which did not work for this stick, and finally Many Heat Gun sessions.
Basically what worked in the end, sort of, would be to get her setup in the jig,
heat her up with the heat gun like I was toasting, as color started to show, make my correction.
I used Tung Oil coats while I was heating the wood to keep it from drying out too much.
All of which was sanded off later.
She's got two pass through knots and one more that did not quite make it all the way through.
I filled the Pith holes and the short knot hole with Green Turquoise from the Kingman Mine in Arizona.
The horn overlays and the arrow pass are American Bison, cut from the tip of a single horn.
The tiller is far from perfect.
I had to lean hard on a good thickness taper with the weird reflex/deflex parts in each limb.
The Heat resistance coupled with funky knot placement really kept me from straightening her out more than I did.
She started out with 1 1/2" of reflex and wound up almost flat at rest.
Just unstrung she shows 1 1/2 inches of string follow but relaxes to about even.
Bottom Line:
I apologize to the group and Mr. (@*!&#@!) for this bow being so late in shipping.
I hope it makes it to you safely and serves you well.
Particulars:
Pacific Dogwood
68.5" NtN
Limbs Parallel all the way out, tapering the last eight inches to 1/2" nocks.
56# @ 28"
12 strand B-50 string.
Got 125 arrows through her before starting the finishing process.
No Chrono, but she does thump em deep.
Ten coats of Tru Oil.
Kangaroo Leather grip wrap and Lace.
Here are the Pics:
I'll try to get a Full Draw up tomorrow.
She will ship Monday.
Thanks for looking.
