Just finished my most recent bow. It’s 66 tip to tip from a hickory board with hickory riser. It pulls 58lbs at 29 inches (although I’m only pulling 26) I’ll give this one to a friend of mine who is a woodworker who I’ve had rip my boards for me. For tip overlays I ended up using cocobolo wood. I opted to inlay buffalo horn for the strike plate. The rest is made of cork with a glue on felt pad. The grip is veg tan leather that was dyed with two coats of fiebing’s mahogany leather dye and one coat of fiebing’s leather wax with atom balm. It was glued down and stitched on the back. During the tillering process the bow picked up two longitudinal cracks. I filled them as best I could with ca and then opted to wrap them with mule deer leg sinew to try to ensure that no lateral tension causes them to run. I kind of like the look of the sinew wrap and it’s rewarding to use a product from an animal I harvested. It picked up a little more set than my last bow, which I feel may have been a result of how slow I tillered this bow - I’d estimate I took at least 30 trips to the tillering rack. The string is 14 strands of B55. Most importantly this is the best shooting bow I’ve build, by far - minimal hand shock, accurate, consistent, quiet, fast, and the arrow seems to slide along the strike plate without kicking off of it. Thanks for looking.
