My wife casually mentioned, hinted, alluded to and made it known that her current bow was not as nice as the bows I had been making for others as of late. She also subtly let me know that it would really be nice if I corrected that oversight of mine. So I set out to rectify the situation. This is a piece of black walnut backed with cherry bark that I got from Carson when I was last out in OR. Thanks Carson. I tillered the bow out to about half draw and then glued the bark on with TBIII and let it cure. Once it was cured I finished tillering it out to 35#@26". The bow is 69" ntn and 1 7/8" wide at the fades tapering to 1/2" tips. The tips are a layer of maple and then burl walnut. I wrapped the handle and bark splices with thread and saturated it with superglue. The bark splice wraps looked a little odd so I added one more wrap to each limb to balance it all out. The string in the pics is just a spare I had laying around. The real string will be pink and white fast flight with black serving(I forgot my string stuff in the truck). The stave had some roller coaster character that made the bark application a real pain. Next time I use cherry bark, the bow will be completely free of character. The arrows are 5/16" POC shafts that have been tapered to 9/32" nocks. I bought these shafts from Matt Wirwicki at last years classic specifically for this project. They are as close of a match to the bow as I have ever made. Thank you again Matt! Josh
