Hickory Makeover

[owlbait]

First bow, 8 year makeover. I bought the stave for this hickory bow in 1994 at Marshall. I hunted bear that year with it  and later turkey and deer. No success. These are pics of how it looked early this spring:
 
 
 
As you can see the Brown Bear was a beast and quite crude.

[owlbait]

So this year my buddy KHALVERSON and I decided to visit Marshall, where this began 8 years ago. With the help of Pearl Drums, blackmockingbird, Chuck Deshler, and Kevin I was able to transform this into a sweet shooter. The Grey Owl:
 
 
 
 

[owlbait]

The bow is 3/8" narrower, 2" shorter, and has a hickory slat glued to the bottom belly to strengthen it. Around 50#@28". I saved the shelf leather from the original to use on the makeover. Thanks to the guys for all their help, and thanks for looking.
owlbait Mike Gerard

[KHALVERSON]

good lookin bow
for an ol grey barn owl  

[PEARL DRUMS]

Tastey!

[2treks]

Looking good OB.
Looking good.

[arsurveyor]

Great looking bow.

[Jomohr84]

Nice makeover!

[owlbait]

The end results:  
 

[Roy from Pa]

Very nice.

[LittleBen]

Great job on the bow makeover.

[Steve B.]

Great story and a good bow made great.

[Sharpend60]

What a feel good story.

I gotta say... I actually gasped when I saw the original tiller!

Nice make over.
Turned that sucker into a tried and true weapon!

[DVSHUNTER]

Nice work.

[jsweka]

Nice!!  Another plan comes together for the guys on the bench.  

[Trapper Rob]

Nice looking bow.
Rob

[Dan Landis]

Quite the transformation, great job.  congrats on the deer also.....Dan

[KellyG]

Sweet I hope you get many more with it.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Who is the big ox on the left?

[owlbait]

In which picture?  :D