First Selfbow tries for 2008

[Chuck Jones]

I posted this once and I do apologize for I can not find it.  For Christmas this year my oldest daughter and her family gave me some 1 x 6 x 72 sawmill cut red oak, ash, and cherry. 

The first picture will be of a hickory board 1 1/2" wide.  66" long 48@26.

The Second picture will  be red oak 1 3/4" x 66"  58@26.

The third picture will be red oak 1 3/4 x 66  58@26.  I cut the rest on the left instead of the right??

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[michbowguy]

holy smokes , you realy getting that tiller thing down drudda!

[Badger]

       Beautiful tillers on those bows. Great way to start the year   Steve

[GregB]

Looks like a great job on your tillering...that's 90% of the job!

[Chuck Jones]

Thanks all for the input.  After my other tillering jobs I am really proud of these bows.  When I started this endeavor I wanted to make a bow that I could take hunting.  You know something that you actually made yourself.  I have wood now to use so I will be making more....This site has been a real encouragement to me....thanks...chuck

[lowell]

I don't mean to be critical but constructive critism is what always helps me!!

 I like the last 2 bows but to me the top bow seems to have a stiff left limb compared to the right one.
 
If I'm seeing it wrong I would like to know too!!

[George Tsoukalas]

Those are awesome tillers. Well done. Jawge

[Auggie]

Ha! Thought I was the only one who cut the shelf other than I intended! I gave that one to a lefty I know.

[Chuck Jones]

A big improvement from what I showed in 2007.  The first three bows that I have made that look like bows and havent  snaped.  I feel like now I may have it down to continue.  I have been eyeing a piece of Junifer that I cut in November, however, it has a bad end.  On the under side of the piece about a foot from the end it had grown with two smaller limbs side by side.  If I cut that section off it would be a short bow.

I am glad to know that I am not the only one who has things wrong.  Nocks going the wrong way on one end, also, makes the bow shorter!  I am sure a lefty will show up sooner or later.

Again, thanks for being supportive during this trial and error period....chuck

[Pappy]

Very nicely done.Tiller looks great.Great start on the year.
    Pappy

[Auggie]

Hey Chuck,this is a long shot,but depending on the grain of the lefty, just maybbe it would be possible to make it a right agin by backing the belly and shoot it backwards from the intended build. Or more sanely offer it up for trade for another stick to start on.

[Chuck Jones]

Auggie--I had thought about turning it around and cutting a shelf on the right side??How insane is that!  In the meantime deciding what to do with it I have a pastey rest that I could put on it on the right side.  Or maybe keep it as a reminder of what not to do unless, or course, you want the arrow rest on the left side!...chuck

[tom sawyer]

I've seen bows with shelves on both sides.  But with so many needy lefty shooters out there...did I mention I'm a lefty? hehe

Cranking them out in '08 aren't ya.  I like the looks of them all, very round tillers.  Are they going to be presents for the folks who got you the wood?

[Chuck Jones]

Tom Sawyer--Shelves on both sides??  Wouldnt that make the riser awful thin?  Or are you talking about fliping the bow around and creating another shelf?  I am not against giving the bows away or trading them for something that I need, however, I do need to keep one if for no other reason these are my first sucessful bows.  The Christmas gift was really appreciated, however, none of them are shooters.

I would really like to try a stave now?....chuck

[Sidewinder]

Good job Chuck. Very nice tiller on all. Danny