I had a couple of projects that I put on the shelf months ago; one was a BBO that had the bottom limb get weak during shoot in, I had it slated to give a friend but when the limb went weak I lost too much poundage getting the tiller right again to meet his requirements so I put the bow back for a few months not wanting to look at what had once been an exceptional bow.
The other was project was a back-up bow for me made out of what I thought were two matched billets. Old darkened billets with the same grain structure turned out to be anything but a match, the glue was already on the splice before I scraped off the darkened wood and found one light billet and one dark billet. These are high crown billets with humps so the tiller will be a challenge.
Here are a couple of handle sections; one the BBO, also a billet bow, with a glued on cherry burl rest and the other my mismatched billets, the handle section has been built up with lots of lams.
The tips; cherry burl on the BBO and skinny static tips on the salt and pepper osage bow. The osage bow is just about floor tillered and ready for tip overlays.
