Another hop hornbeam bow I finished several weeks ago from the super clean log that halfeye sent me several months ago. It is backed with a cut off of eastern diamond back skin that Rich also gave me from a large snake that came from Donald Burchett. Thanks both of you kind gentlemen for the awesome materials, enough cannot be said of the generosity of sharing from the PA community and believe me I am quite appreciative of this. So many thanks fellas.
The bow is a little under 59" ntn and a hair over 1-3/8" wide at its widest. I'm not seeing a great tiller on this one but after tillering, tweaking, retillering and shooting I had to stop and accept the results. It doesn't shoot badly in spite of the possibility that it may be badly bent.
Came in around #47 at 24" draw. Handle is rawhide. Anyway here's a look at the finished bow.
Oh, my son in law seemed to take a real liking to this bow when he saw it on my rack a few weeks ago so I'll probably pass it
to him if he likes how it shoots. When it warms enough to go out and shoot, I'll head out to his place and let him see how he likes it. I've shot at least 200 arrows though this one in the past 2- 1/2 months so it's broke in.
