Apple Longbow!(+ Build-along)

[rossfactor]

Nice bow Zion! Reminds of a Thimo bow. (that's a compliment!)

Apple is actually surprisingly dense and hard wood.  Much harder than plum in my experience.  At 12%moisture its specific gravity can be in the mid 0.8's.  Which is comparable to some of the denser hardwood. For example denser than most elm.

Gabe

[Jodocus]

Nice bow! I'd sure like to get some apple. That twist looked awful. On branches like these I tend to not split and just ignore it. but that's for much lighter bows  But you can still make lighter bows when you get old.
How thick (deep) are the limbs? They look quite thick. And what's the mass of the bow?

[Pappy]

Good lookin bow.
   Pappy

[okie64]

That tiller looks awesome Zion! Love to get my hands on some apple wood someday. BTW, My son is 13 years old and a wrestler also and he was very impressed that you could pull that weight.

[burn em up chuck]

    awesome profile well done

                                           chuck

[Tom Leemans]

Younger and younger bowyers... This is cool!  Great tiller job!

[danny f]

you make some great bows this one is no exception nice work.

[nativenoobowyer86]

affirmative! thats a beauty, and a great lookin tiller job!  Way to yank that badboy back like that, i know that anything over 65 lbs means a dislocated shoulder or broken collarbone for me. lol

[randman]

That's a beauty Zion. Being near apple country, you should have an endless supply of that stuff. Cut-offs and shavings are great in the smoker too. Got an apple stave like that myself to work on (from Yakima).  You guys got a lot more snow than that the last couple of days didn't you?

[Zion]

Thanks guys!!!

Ross, i kinda noticed that the density seemed to totally peek as it became dry. When its green its super easy to work!!

Jodocus since i don't really measure anything when i make bows i don't know that off the top of my head. All i know is the the limbs are pretty thick and the bow is light  I'll try taking measurements soon.

Thanks Okie and that's awesome your son's a wrestler. My season just starts off after break.

Lol randman yeah we got a bunch of snow now. Last night it probably dumped another 4-5." Most snow we had in a while.

Thanks again!

[Marc St Louis]

Very nice

[Josh B]

That's a beautiful bend on that stick!  I really appreciate your simplistic style of bows.  You continue to prove that less is more.  Josh

[soy]

Sweet as apple pie

[LEGIONNAIRE]

I like your bow, and the tiller looks awesome, great job. You did good with that propeller twist, thats ofter very difficult to deal qith but looks like you tamed that wood. keep it up.

[Zion]

Thanks Marc, Doc, soy, Legionnaire.
I think apple pie is still sweeter