Rawhide backed hickory R/D with brush nocks. "Blue Bell" (f/d pic added)

[bowmo]

Finally finished this one after years of staring at it. 58" ntn 50# at 26". Slightly trapped limbs backed with dog bone rawhide. Walnut and zebra wood handle lams and walnut tips. A friend gave me this stave something like 8 or 9 years ago, very narrow and had an insane amount of natural reflex. So, eventually I decided to cut it in half and spliced it in a delfex to balance it out. And then it sat again for years, waiting for me to pick it up a few weeks or so ago and back it and glue on the tips. Randomly decided to dye it blue and add some birch bark accents. Hence the name Blue Bell. More after that tru oil drys a bit more.

[Gsulfridge]

Good job.

[DC]

Yeah. I like that one!

[Will H]

Sweet!

[tattoo dave]

Nice!! I love that blue. I saw a bow long time ago painted blue with some birch bark on it. I love that combo, maybe I'll try it on my next. Thanks for the reminder . Beautiful bow!!

Tattoo Dave

[xpertbushman]

Whoa that's a nice bow! Say, don't  large ears with extra weight on the end tend to be slower?

[Badly Bent]

Cool bow bowmo. Nice work on those brush nocks, I'd like to have those on a hunting bow as it seems like anything that can get hung up between the string and the tip will.

[bowmo]

Thanks guys!

xpert: not so much with tips as narrow as these, coupled with the fact that walnut is lighter than hickory as well as the brush nocks raising the brace height while keeping the limbs as tho they were at a lower (higher energy returning) brace height kind of cancel the added mass out.

Badly Bent: yea, I have tried these so many times only to end up with a tiny pile of cut off brush nock tips that I bailed on for one reason or another. But, the ever present problem of snagging brush has kept me trying to make them from time to time.

[Peacebow_Coos]

Awesome bow, very sleek.  I love the blue color and the handle.  The brush nocks are pretty cool too, been wanting to do that.

[IdahoMatt]

Looking good man can't wait to see her bending. Nice nocks.

[missilemaster]

That thing looks sweet!

[Pappy]

That is a beauty, very well done in all aspects.
   Pappy

[George Tsoukalas]

Outstanding! Very nicely done. Jawge

[Aaron H]

Very cool. With the dog bone rawhide, is that one long strip or two that you joined at the handle?  If so did you overlap them at the handle or splice them together?  Again, very good looking bow, love the R/D design.

[bowmo]

Thanks fellas.

Falcon: Never came across an animal hide big enough to use just one piece at the length I make bows, so all of my rawhide backed bows are two strips be it deer hide, goat hide, or cow hide. I never lap them or anything like some do, just butt them up to one another as I glue them down.