My first three piece take-down proto-typing!

[ChristopherO]

You're learning a lot with this one and teaching us in the process.
From your discription of the "Hingy" looking and the pictures it has the appearance of a Bingham's limb design whereas the limb starts bending out from the riser in a locallized place.  Bingham's recurve design makes me think of a longhorn steer when braced.  Yours isn't as extreme as those,  though.
I am looking forward on how you plan on shaping the riser to fit the hand.
Good work, Marty.

[Apex Predator]

Alright, it's starting to come around.  I'll shoot her at first light, and then lot's of sanding.  After I finish my other build that I'm working on, I'll finish this one out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Igor]

Marty

Looks awesome - looking forward to the finished product!


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Glenn

[Apex Predator]

Wow!  This thing has a couple of issues, but shoots better than anything I have built so far.  This thing has excellent potential!  I was stacking arrows at 28 yards.  The forward riser is the most pointable bow I have handled.  Both limbs on this one are twisted, due to my hard-headedness in relying on my drilling jig.  I can hardly wait to glue up another and drill it properly.  I will finish this one out and hunt with it.  She has wonderful manners, except for a slight limb buzz.  I attribute that to the string lying on the edge of both limbs.  No recoil, and as quiet as the quietest recurve I've ever owned.  Less noise than my pronounced R/D longbow.  If you can tell, I'm quite excited.  

Now to finish Dennis' bow!  Got her stringed up this morning buddy!

[BenBow]

Glad you are finding all the work is worth it. I've enjoyed my belly mounted bows for their manners too.

[TNstickn]

[fish n chicks]

Hell yeah Apex! Love what you got going on bro. That's a sick stick for sure. Such a distinctive character to that bow.

[Apex Predator]

Did some performance testing this morning, and I am very pleased.  With this riser set so far forward, it's got to be robbing me of 1-2" of real draw length on the string.  I'm gonna compare it to one of my others and see if I can measure the difference.  Any way, shooting 10.14 gpp, drawing 28" (as measured 26 1/4" to deepest part of the grip), with a 12 strand D97 string, and a three fingered release, I am getting an average of 182 fps.  That's with an 8 1/4" brace height!       She gains three pounds an inch out to 30", and gains four between 30-31".  Not bad for a 60" bow!  More testing is definitely in order here.

[BenBow]

That's good speed for sure.