BBH, rivercane, and stone

[razorsharptokill]

 
 
 
This is boo backed hickory board bow with zebrawood handle. It started out 64" ntn but it was sickingly slow. I cut it to 59.5" and tillered again. The top limb is a bit stiff yet.

The arrow is river cane with a stone point. The shot was from 20 yards. I can keep it that close or closer but only by shooting it cock feather in. The draw weight is abot 65 @ 28 right now. When I scrape that top limb some more I should be able to drop to about 60? She's fairly quick!

As I feared the boo split about 1/2" on the crown where the shelf meets the sight window. I got some super glue down in there but it popped loose again. Should have done a bulbous handle.

I think I'm going to do a rawhide patch from the beginning of each fade.

[Roy from Pa]

I would bet the boo cracked because of the hinges close to the riser. When you tiller out a BBO bow, you want a nice smooth 1/4 moon limb profile from fades on out to about 8 inches from the limb tips. In this pix below you can see the hinges.

 

[razorsharptokill]