Been out with cancer surgery and finally able to do some work on bows. Been slow and hard to twist my wife's arm to let me in the shop but finally making progress. This is a new short longbow prototype that started as building a set of limbs for Doc Nock's broken recurve. I've copied Doc's riser and built these limbs as a test for it. I like how it's turned out so far. It's 58" nock to nock and 43# at 28" draw. Seems to have good manors at the shot. I'll be trying to get it chrono'd to see how it performs. Should be a good blind hunting bow.
I added a bit of brown and black stain to the alcohol I use to thin the 2-part epoxy for the last 2 coats of epoxy finish than put on 2 coats of satin exterior poly. I like how it turned out. I also stippled the grip to cut slippage without covering up the wood grain.
The woods are ambrosia maple with bloodwood accents and I-beam as well as phenolic strips to strengthen the riser.
Here's a profile shot with a 7" brace height.
Here's a shot of the nock.
Closeup of the stippling
Here is the belly side of the riser showing the limb bolts.
Unstrung profile
28+" full draw
Topic: Finally back to building again (Updated pictures) (Read 463 times)
