After several stave failures, I thought that I better go back to basics and start over. This is from an oak board from the "Depot".

It is my first bend through the handle bow. 64" ntn, and 38#@26".

After 100 or so arrows it has taken a little set.

Oak is not much fun to work with and I won't build another. Maple is a better candidate(finer wood grain). The grain was good in this one.

I glued up some leather to build up the grip and then attached the black leather over some rests I put on. Sort of dual shelf.

Anyways it has held together and shoots all right. The backing is a stretchy nylon material. I will paint the back to fancy it up a little bit later.

Thanks for watching.

SD

Also my apologies to Tecum-tha for poo pooing his notion of rough tillering with a belt sander.

I tried that method, thinking nothing ventured nothing learned. It works okay for a flat bellied board bow but would not try it on a stave.

All good,

SD

Very nice. How's she handle?

Nice looking bow!

Nice job, thanks for all of the pictures.

Great looking bow steely! Your shooting form looks like it’s solid also!

Nice bow congratulations

Well done nice tiller.

congrats,,

That looks great.

Looks fantastic!

I like red oak.

I rough tiller with stationery belt sander too.

Jawge

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