How many bows have you completed?

[b.glass]

Steve, it ALL counts.

CaptainJ, that's what I call experimenting.

Did someone say the old job gets in the way? Thankful to have one but I hear you.

[Benner]

Between 50 and 75 glass backed longbows and recurves, 20-30 self, sinew and bamboo backed bows. I used to make a lot more than I do now.

[Ranger44]

ONE!  It's a red oak board bow about 35# @ 29".  

I have two in the works now.  I plan on one or two more before I start my swap bow.  All I am doing is learning right now.  Hopefully I will have some decent skills by the time I make the swap bow.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

3 Shooter's and a few kindling stiks lol

[Eric Krewson]

133 shooters, 20 or 30 that didn't make the grade. Winding down a bit on the bow building and branching out to building flintlock rifles.

I will always make bows and teach how to make bows but the drive to really crank them out like I did in the past is gone.

[lovethehunt]

6 glass one piece longbow: they seem to look less like a block one at a time.

4 laminated longbows: all good firewood

1 bambo backed walnut: very fun to shoot

2 three piece longbows; first one is 'back in the shop' being fit with a new riser (original cracked) second one is very fast it I was big enough to get it to full draw.

[soopernate]

Several self bows (mostly unsuccessful)
A dozen or so kids bows...
A few BBI's.

All told I am in the low 30's or high 20's...I build slow, maybe two or three a year...and have only been at it about six years.

[shikari]

2 self bows,1 glass and so far 3 composites and the list of failuers
4 selfbows
1 glass bow
10 composites

[Bighornangler]

I would say about a dozen so far both self bows & laminated wood bows and probably broke at least half that many. I am working on a couple of selfbows right now. This is the time of year when I really get the bug.

[Bighornangler]

I have probably have built about a dozen or so both self bows and laminated wood bows and probably broke at least half that many. This is the time of the year when I really get the bug to build bows.

[Dick in Seattle]

32... all glass lam traditional longbows... most are straight, 6 are string follow and 1 reflexed.  4 were hinged take downs.  I keep a careful log and can refer back to layup formulas and construction details on all.   I'd be lost if I didn't do that!

[Pat B]

I would guess 100 to 150 but I haven't kept count. Mostly selfbows but some boo or hickory backed bows and one or two tri-lam bows. I did build one Bungham straight limbed glass longbow but it blew up before I ever braced it. d;^)

[Bert Frelink]

I am right there with Pat, close to 150, I do the self bow thing for my own sanity and to get away from the calipers.
Bert.  :cool:

[b.glass]

14 is the best count I can come up with so far. Most of the 14 are adult bows. Then there are the 2 dozen or so kids bow. Most of the adult bows were bamboo backed osage or pecan, with a couple of selfbows thrown in. I've got 2 more nearly done.

[Dan Landis]

6 that are shooters so far, all self bows, and a pile of fire wood......Dan

[4est trekker]

I'm somewhere just shy of 60.  I've built an assortment of bows, but all wooden.

[John Scifres]

I forgot about rattan kids bows.  That puts my total somewhere around Tim Baker territory  

[No-sage]

2 glass bows.

Over 50 bamboo backed bows, best I can figure.

Around 10 hickory backed bows. Done with them.

30 or more selfbows, of at least 10 different types of wood, but at least half of them osage.  Osage is all I'll spend my time on anymore.

I'm moving out of bow building and into guitar making for the next couple of years.  My bow curiosity is satisfied for now.

[broketooth]

i built 1 so far, im workin on 2 as we speak . 1 for the tg bow swap and 1 for bernie. ruddy

[George Tsoukalas]

At least a couple of hunnert and probably more. 2-300 maybe. I started in '89 right after Dad died. I've broken 100 or so too. I've been plunked on the head and bled on most of those in one from or another even the ones that became shooters. This is no pastime for the faint of heart. But I'm having fun. It has been a journey. My youngest daughter, who is 29 years old and about to be married just said to me, "Dad, I want to start shooting with you." Ah the magic words. I want to start this week  making her a bow from a red oak board I found in my Dad's shop just after he died....and her journey begins.    Jawge