I started on this bow a couple years ago. It was not working out, too circular of a tiller, so I put it aside. A couple months ago I took it down and decided to fix it, for myself since I don’t have a longbow anymore. I took the backing off and added a strip of Buckthorn over the splice then glued another backing down. This time it turned out well. The bow is 66” N to N and pulls 43# @ 28” (45# @ 29”). Horn nocks, of course, and a 300# linen string, I used some high quality linen I picked up several years ago so the string is quite slim. After Don’s post about hand-shock I was curious how this bow shot, lots of snow outside so indoor is all I could manage. I couldn’t feel any hand-shock, perhaps it’s as Dell says and that it is subjective. It does shoot quite well spitting arrows at a good pace.
