I've started another black cherry long bow. This one from a narrow knotty stave that I wasn't able to get much width or depth from due to the knota and tear outs during splitting. It's 83" long, 1.5" wide and 1" thick at the handle tapering to 3/4" mid limb. with a curved belly rectangular profile. I havnt pulled it far yet since I'm working on getting the bend good before seeing what it'll go to. The dilemma I'm at is, it's not going to go minimum warbow weight, so I'm debating on going for light weight with a 32" draw to practice the long draw. Or tiller it to my standard 27" draw and shoot and pike until it shoots well. I've pulled it to 19" where it's pulling 40 pounds. Once I get the bend where I'm happy, I'll work it back and see what weight it ends up. But at the moment in only expecting a top of 55# at my 27" draw and upper 60s at 32". That is if it holds up to being pulled that far. It needed the midlimbs to bend a bit more, I rasped it but havnt checked since I did that yet. I was hoping I could get it up into the 70s, but there wasn't enough good wood there to do it at that length. This is all counting on it not detonating too.
So what do you all think?
Kyle
