American Flatbow Oak Board Bow 53lb @ 26"

[Threy Cameron]

Hey everyone!

Finished up another bow the last one of a set of 4 adult bows from an American Red oak board. The board so far has yielded 4 bows with 4 additional kids bows in the works.

The bow is 68" long and is the first bow where I've incorporated the TBB mass principle the bow ended up being 19oz. right on the money. I learned from my previous heat treatments and managed to slowly and gently cook the limbs resulting in very little set so far. The bows limbs are 2 inches wide at the fades for a little over half the limb before tapering to 1/2" nocks. I shot for an elliptical tiller and believe I pulled it off.

The handle is brain tanned buckskin created by my brother with NZ possum fur string dampeners.

Cheers guys

[Hamish]

Another lovely, well crafted bow. Great job on the tiller.

[Pappy]

Beautiful bow, very well done.
 Pappy

[bjrogg]

Very nice tiller. Good looking bow

Bjrogg

[Eric Krewson]

One of the best tillered bows I have seen lately, Amazing!

[bentstick54]

Great job. Tiller looks as good as it can get.

[Pat B]

Great bow and tiller and the back profile is a good overall shape. Well done. 

[NonBacked]

Threy, you flat nailed that one! Excellent craftsmanship and quality. 53lb out of Red Oat is quite an accomplishment. I’ve had some “less than stellar” results with Red Oak – too much string follow. Out of curiosity, how much reflex did you put in the limbs during the heat-treating process?

[Threy Cameron]

Another lovely, well crafted bow. Great job on the tiller.

Cheers man I really appreciate it. That one board is turning out to be a gold mine of good bows haha.

[Threy Cameron]

One of the best tillered bows I have seen lately, Amazing!

Thank you, I'm really happy with how the tiller turned out. Really appreciate the encouragement!