How many bows have you completed?

[b.glass]

Feel free to elaborate on types and level of successes as well.

I don't remember if this has ever been asked. I'm not sure if I know how many I have made but I will try to come up with a rough quess. I want to keep a log of them starting now. Who they go to ...

I was thinking about Tim Baker and how many he's had to have made by now. Staggers the mind.

[KellyG]

0  :(  thus far. 2 failed and working on number 3.

[John Scifres]

Somewhere close to 150 tillered.  I have a pile of 30 or so that I haven't finished though   .  I'm easily distracted...ooh look something shiny!

I have broken at least 20 that were close to being done or done.  Probably 20 more that were in some stage less than that.

There was a time I was making 10 bows a month.  Now it's more like 10 bows a year.  But they are much better bows.

[Osagetree]

No where near Johns count but close to 100

[okie64]

Somewhere around 40 that have made it. Broken around 10 or 15 more. Most that broke were laminated bows, only broken a couple selfbows. I used to think laminated bows were harder to break. That couldve been why I broke so many of them, I wasnt taking my time and using as much patience with them as I would with a selfbow.

[b.glass]

John! A squirrel!

[jess stuart]

Don't know for sure but somewhere over a hundred I would guess.  Hope the wife doesn't read this. Most have been glass laminated recurves and longbows.  Did finish up a couple of osage bows years back, still have them.  Broke several other wooden ones.  Good wood is not to plentiful around here and never have got into the board bows.  In my opinion wooden bows are the zenith of the bowyers craft.

[Toymaker]

One kids bow was fairly successful (poor tiller). One blown up and another on the way.

[Dave Bowers]

4 completes and a bunch of fire wood.  

[Roy from Pa]

I guess about 25.

[PEARL DRUMS]

5 youth bows and 6 adult bows. All wood, some backed some not. Number 7 adult bow is drying in the form as I type. Probably an equal amount of broken bows as well. If I didnt have a stinkin' job I could get alot more built!

[kennym]

Tween 50 and 100 glass and 2 self.

Shoulda kept track better I guess!

[John Lipinski]

Two for now; another three on the way by the end of spring

One is good, one blew up two months after being complete.

[jsweka]

6 straight glass longbows (about to start another for my swap bow), 1 takedown recurve, 1 BBO from a Dryad blank, 1 Hickory backed ipe (2 others that failed), 1 kids oak board bow, and 1 Maddog Pup blank.  

I'm still on the upslope of the learning curve so each one gets better than the last.

[GREG IN MALAD]

Not really sure.    
Well I remember I built close to 40 the first year, and 20-30 per year for 10 years. I bet I spend more time cooking bows that cooking dinner.

[AKmud]

I've completed around 15 and have at least that many in pieces.  I also have a stack of 10-12 that need a little work to finish.

[briarjumper12]

4 adult self bows from staves I cut, 1 kids bow (hikory strip with a walnut riser.  Broke one red oak board pyrimad bow cause the glued on riser popped off and it blew while stringing it.

[CaptainJ]

Maybe a dozen here.
A few board bows, a few self bows, a few child bows, a few adult bows, a few experiments, and a few catastrophes!
I even tried tillering a hockey stick once. They don't laminate those things to be bent!
CJ

[Silent Bear]

around 60 sinew backed tribal bows around 30 or so of different designs and still learning everytime I make a bow

[Sixby]

I broke seven before I made one. does that count?
God bless you all, Steve