A kid that I work with told his little brother that I build my own bows and arrows. His little brother told him to ask me if I would help him build a bow, so of coarse I said yes (like heck ya). After a few days this high school boy calls me and I give him directions to get to our place and discussed a few options for him, where we decided on a R/D BBO with help from pics on the bow forum(thanks guys). I instructed him to get some straight grain hickory around 4/4" X 1.5", rip a thin strip 1/8" X 1.5" blck walnut and purchase a bamboo backing stip. He finaly got his material, we started the bending on the hickory and gluing the handle block on today. pics of my reflexing, deflexing form and the 6'6" 17 year old future bowyer working on his blkwalnut handle block. Any day a young one volunteers to build a bow or anything as apposed to buying is a good day. And get this what brought this idea to him was his brother and Dad just went and dumped $700 each on new wheelies and his Dad planned on buying him one as well but he thought it would be cooler to build one. (all I can say is God bless the young man and I hope I do him justice)
