I got this piece of mesquite from Cipriano. It was a bit snaked and lumpy but easy to steam mostly strait. It still has a some minor bumps in one limb but is pretty clean. This is the first bow I have made from mesquite and the wood makes a good bow, but the best quality is the beautiful color. The bow is replicated from a page in "Bows ,arrows and quivers of the american frontier". The bow is 42" long and draws 70# @ 20"(That's why the full draw picture is a little blurry. I don't usually shoot 70# short bows.) The arrows pictured with this bow were 28" with 8" foreshafts, so it seems it would have been drawn 20". It has a 3 layer sinew backing and sinew wrapped handle painted with ocher. The string is 2 ply sinew. It took a few tries to try and copy the knot. It looks pretty close and does the trick.
