Mini Lever Bow...

[Shredd]

I been wanting to make this bow for the last year or two...  Finally got around to it...  It's kind of a cross between all three bow styles...  R/D, recurve and a lever bow with siyahs...  Did some math in my head and came up with this...  I am more of a fan of a lever than a recurve...

52#  ---   60" string  ---  7" brace  ---  16" riser  ---   1 1/2" at the fades   ---  5/8" at the tips...

Shoots like a lazer...  Very stable...

[Forwardhandle]

Nice bend on that one really like the concept 

[Flem]

Thats a sweet looking profile, Rich No wasted limb.
Get much twang out of it?

[ztontonz]

I like it! Showing a nice dfc chart.
I bet it quiet too.

Looks a lot like my RER Vital. Just the lever angle is a bit tighter

Thanks for sharing

[bigbob2]

Very nicely engineered!. I can imagine it being fast too.Well done!

[Pat B]

That's a nice arc of a circle bend. Very pleasing visually. 

[Forwardhandle]

Hey Rich could you post a front view pic ?

[Shredd]

Hey Rich could you post a front view pic ?

Is this the pic that you want???

[Shredd]

Twang??  Meaning Quiet??   It seemed quiet on the shooting machine but when I shot it, it is not as quiet as my R/D bows...  I shoot three under...  Maybe I should try it split finger...

Bob, she is very fast...  Flat Trajectory...

Tonz...  What is a RER Vital??

Thanks for the compliments guys...

[Mad Max]

More pictures of the tips

[monterey]

Would like to see the chrono results.   If you don't have one, just send it to me and I'll give it a work out. 

[Flem]

Yeah Rich, I was wondering about noise. I have never shot that style of bow, with the static tips and always wonder if you get much string slap. The Elk are jumpy around here.

[Shredd]

Flem...  I will keep you posted on that...   

Monty...   I will send you a PM... 

I notice a lot of guys don't post their speeds...  Some say that they don't care what speed their bow is shooting...  On another forum  I think I pissed a few guys off for jokingly calling them chronophobes... One guy said that if he posted the speed of his bow, that he was afraid that I would copy his design...  Then some other John Wayne (non-bowyer) Kook, jumped on the forum and started shooting his mouth off that speed does not matter...  So now I am a little gun shy and I feel like I am sinning or something for posting my speeds...  I thought being a bowyer and conversing with other bowyers, that speed is a basic and an important part of bow-making and should be discussed...  Not to be hidden...  In my mind there should be no ego about how fast or slow a bow is...  Plain and simple it is just the speed of that bow...

[monterey]

Agree 100% Rich.  Speed is a performance factor.   A few fps is no big thing for the typical archer/hunter but along with other performance factors it's a major indicator of what the bowyer is achieving.

When it comes to hunting the bow I have been using for the past five years is close to the bottom on speed but it does so many other things well.

[Mad Max]

More pictures of the tips

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[Shredd]

Maxx...  I am not sure what you want to see right now...  The tips are just rough sanded and ugly looking...

[ztontonz]

The Vital is a recurve from RER bows

[Shredd]

I checked RER out... They make some nice looking bows...

[kennym]

Looks great Rich ! great FDC also! 

[Shredd]

Thanks Kenny...  Much Appreciated...

  Flem...  I made another bow (40#) which my shoulders can handle shooting it...  When I shot it on the chrony it sounded very quiet...  Then when I shot it 3 under I was disappointed...  It was noisy...  Not very noisy but not quiet...  Then I shot it split finger and it is very quiet...  So I am stoked...  This thing is a shooter...  Puts the arrow where I want it, vertically and torsionally stable and super fast...  With three under, a 410 gr. arrow and point on at 28 yds the arrow only drops 4 to 4 1/2" at my 29" draw...