Well it's been over a year since I last posted a bow here, so I was looking forward to showing this one off. I have been slowly chipping away at it for over a year, working on it a little bit here and there. It was an evolving project that started off being a holmie-ish bow, which I later decided to try heat treating and flipping the tips slightly. It ended up being in the low 40's at 28" draw, but I had put over 100 arrows through her, and after some tweaking with the knocking point and brace height, it was one of my sweetest shooters to date. The string ended up tracking just to the right of the handle, and being a lefty, this was a pleasant accident because it seemed to shoot all of my arrows close to the same, regardless of spine. I was grouping arrows with this bow like I never have before. I put 3 coats of poly on it and I was just contemplating what to do for a handle wrap when I decided to take some pictures before I put it on because there were some nice looking knots in the handle area. So after taking some glamor shots, I asked the better half if she could take some full draw pictures for me. I had her held back for about 15 or 20 seconds while she snapped away (I know, I'm a retard!), and that's when I heard the sound of heartbreak - "TICK" After inspection I found that the back had failed at the location of a pin knot pretty much right at midlimb. I'm pretty bummed right now, but I know that this type of thing happens...
Here are a few pictures of the bow that might have been.
