Note: Old Phartt's Archery is an amateur activity. I do not build for sale or to order.
Old Phartt's #13 had a checkered history. It started out with an effort to build two youth bows, but the wood didn't want to do that and refused to cooperate. I decided to listen to the wood and do what it wanted, which was to build one of my standard flatbows. It's red elm with a cherry riser, 68" and 33@28 (28@25... my draw). The complete back story, including how the name came about, and some construction pix can be found at:
http://dickwightman.com/archery/bowyering/bowsmade/lookatme/lookatme.html Here you go:
Limbs are three lams of red elm
Riser is cherry and so pretty I hated to put a wrap on it...
but I did. This bow has my "Classic" riser, with no shelf in the tradition of the simple 1950's wood longbows. I put a thin leather wedge under the wrap to act as a hand and arrow placement reference. It's too thin to act as a real shelf, you're really shooting off your hand, but it works.
This isn't spectacular for 18 yards, but the bow will shoot very consistently (more than I can). Note that the lower middle arrow is the bare shaft, right in there with the rest.
I did a lot of shooting with it and it's a nice bow. This was three quick shots I threw at my deer as I went back into the house, and a pic of the bow unstrung... my usual straight longbow.
Topic: Meet "Look at Me!", Old Phartt's #13 (Read 482 times)
