This one’s made from a sapling of pignut hickory. It has an asymmetric deflex-recurve design, which is why the top limb is larger and bends more, like a yumi but much less extreme. I chose this design because the stave was short and the deflex wasn’t in the center, so that sort of dictated the handle position.
The bow draws 35 pounds at 28 inches, fairly lightweight but smooth and comfy for relaxed target shooting. It’s 60” ntn, about 1” wide across the top limb and 1.25” for the bottom. The top limb is about 3” longer.
The stain is Lamy blue fountain pen ink, which is scraped off of the interlocking ridges from the back of the tree, leaving the streaky effect. The handle is buffalo leather and is tooled with antler tines and homemade stamps. The recurves are bent with steam and locked in with dry heat, and the limbs were heat treated under a radiator.
