I made that bow in early '07 from a stave of pignut hickory Ryan O'Sullivan gave me, or traded me I don't really recall. Was not real dense hickory, more like ash probably and old Ryan reckoned he hated it. I made a little sliver bow outa it which fretted some. In fact I think this longer bow has a few small frets as well but is built with a little more wood for it's weight. Don't recall the limb width but it's a modified alb, perhaps 1 1/4". If I recall correctly it may be a little whip tillered which is probably appropriate, I think it may be closer to 67" ntn for George's 27" draw. That should mitigate it's tendancy to fret as well. I've shot it quite a bit drawn as far as 29". Makes fair cast, is mild mannered with ~3/4" string follow. Ole George is prolly seeing 35% Rh up there this winter. When he takes it to the 3d in July where it's humid and hottern nine kinds 'o hades, he'll have a different opinion of it I imagine. ;-)
I will say, to have an experienced and knowledgable person appretate your work is very gratifying. Beleive it or not, relatively few people are good candidates to be gifted a selfbow. And I know most of you will appretate when you invest what you must in a stick of wood in order to make it into a bow, you want for it to find a good home where it will be used but not abused and appretiated for what it is.
Hopefully George will be motivated by his experience enough to get back into bowyerin' a bit. That wasn't my initial motivation, didn't even realize he'd already taken a poke at it. If so, I expect he'd find a cooperative audience here for that! LOL If you do George, I got bow wood I'm ready to send you. With the internet, digital pics, and sites like this one it's become fairly easy to turn out a fittin' bow without a whole lot of prior experience.
