My First Bow, BBI Build Along

[Pyro43]

So progress has been slow, but steady enough.

I have started working on my arrows too, that has been one thing that has been slowing me up. I'm a little reluctant to completely finish the bow without some arrows to take out and shoot once it is. I post some pictures of those when I get them done.

I had finished the nocks some time back, but over the course of the last two days I put four heavy coats of Super glue on them to finish them up. The way I figure it, the super glue should provide a lot of protection to the tips, so if they get dragged through the dirt or if I just rest the bow on the nocks sometimes, they should hold up. We'll see I guess, what have any of you done to protect the tips if anything?

   
   

The secondary nock is for a stringer. The superglue is still shiny, I'll dull it down to a nice satin to match the rest of the finish when I do the bow.

I have the handle and rest all roughed out, once I finish the nocks I'll start sanding on the handle area, round off any loose corners on the rest of the bow, and get some finish on it.

pics to follow    

[mikkekeswick]

I'm interested to see the full draw now  
You could lose some weight off the tips but for a first attempt they will be perfectly functional.
Well Done!

[Pyro43]

I'll get a pic of my drawing it when it's all finished, I've definatly lost some of my glued in relfex, but the tiller is still pretty close to the last pictures I posted.

I haven't done anything else with the tiller since I got it to weight, the limbs are bending almost identically. Only problem I could see is a little bit of limb twist on both sides, though it's hardly enough to see. After doing some research on this and other forums, I decided to leave it as is and just keep an eye on it if it gets worse. Limb twist isn't spose to be as much of a problem on longbows from I've read. But I'll watch it, though I think it's actually gotten better as I've shot it in a bit.