I have really been out of the bow making game for a year or so and thought I was done.
I made a ladies BBO to donate to a children's hospital auction at an ASTB tournament but a bad hip replacement got in the way, I could no longer walk the course well so I sold my camper and hung up my bow.
The bow sat on the wall on the rack for a couple of years, I found another charity in town that was having an auction for kids and told them I had a bow I would give them, they just had to come get it. They seemed excited about the prospect but never showed up, they could have been one of those fly by night, set up a booth, take donations and leave town type of scams.
I looked at the bow last year and noticed the glue had turned loose slightly one end of the handle addition. I took off the old handle, glued on a new piece of osage and there it sat for at least a year.
Yesterday I realized I was watching way too many youtube videos and forced myself back out to the shop.
Funny how it all comes back once you pick up a #49 rasp. I had the block of added wood reshaped into a handle an hour or so.
When I took this picture, I had just added the arrow rest and had started to reduce it to final slim shape. I will blend in the new wood into the old dark wood, add a leather handle and leave the bow out in the sun to complete the color blending
I see a few more bows in my future.
