The Mouse Slayer

[WhistlingBadger]

A couple weeks ago, my daughter noticed a big, two-foot long sliver of hickory left over from my last project, and indicated she would like a bow for her American Girl doll.  Sure, sweetie.  But I'm not that interested in dolls (really, it's true).  So, to make it interesting for myself, I decided that in addition to looking cute with the doll, I wanted it to be a fully-functional bow.   For the purposes of this project, I define fully-functional as 1. Tillered reasonably well, and 2.  Shooting a very small arrow hard enough to actually stick in my target at five yards.

Here's the result: The Mouse Slayer.  Hickory, backed with paper; 14.5" nock to nock; 2# @ 5".  Handle wrapped in artificial sinew.  Tip build-ups made of toothpicks.  String is braided artificial sinew.  Arrows (I'm rather proud of this, if I may say so) made from bamboo kebab skewers and verrrrrry small turkey feathers.

Braced:
M S Braced by Whistling Badger, on Flickr

Full-Draw:
Full Draw by Whistling Badger, on Flickr

The happy new owner:
MS Doll by Whistling Badger, on Flickr

And yes, it does meet the second criteria:
https://youtu.be/rR0zFDzaSkA

So, there you go!  ha ha

Thomas

[Stickhead]

Love it!

[Del the cat]

Nice job, quite tricky those tiny bows.
Shot it though the chrono' yet
Del

[Digital Caveman]

Next will be a buckskin dress, then maybe beaded moccasins...   

[TimBo]

Nice!  That should do the job.  It would probably work for goldfish as well...you just need a tiny little reel.

[Will B]

That’s very cool. I’m sure your daughter loved it!

[WhistlingBadger]

Nice job, quite tricky those tiny bows.
Shot it though the chrono' yet
Del

Not yet, but might try it next week up at my dad's.  I must admit I'm kind of curious...

[JW_Halverson]

That squeal of laughter from her in the video just turned around a very bad day for me.

[stuckinthemud]

I love it

[Hawkdancer]

Neat!  The mice and the target are safe, the garage door, not so much !
Hawkdancer

[Parnell]

That is tremendous work.  I'm with JW, her reaction just put an enormous smile on my face!  So clever.

I bet the arrows WERE tricky.  What did you tiller with an Exacto knife?

I properly think that should go in for BOM.  Great job, WB.

[Woody roberts]

How cool is that?

[bjrogg]

Nice job WB.
Enjoyed the video to.

Those little bows can teach you a lot. You really need to get every inch bending right.

We had a short bow challenge at Marshall one year. Total length 24” or less. Was pretty cool.

Bjrogg

[gutpile]

thats awesome...gut

[monkeyball]

  Very cool.

                Good Shooting->->->->Craig