Over the years, making bows, lots of them and selling them. Now and then I'd get one that the customer didn't pay for, so I'd use it for a while. Eventually somebody would want it, and buy it. I've noticed myself, whilst testing out bows I made for customers, spending a little more time, trying out the ASL bows I made. I couldn't seem to put them down.
So I had this piece of Bolivian rosewood, and whenever I had extra glue, at the end of a glue up, I'd use it to put another strip of wood, (around .125" thick) on that piece of wood. Eventually, I had a bunch of stripes of wood, of various species, and I put on that final piece of Osage orange, that happened to be just the right shape, after very little sanding. So knowing I'd probably never get a request for such a configuration from a customer, I decided hence, that riser block was mine, and the rest of the story ended up as this bow. And like other follower extreme longbows, I can't put this one down. It likes straight fletched, POC arrows, 500 grain, 45-50# spine, and the 14 strand 8125 string I made for it. No silencers needed, it's whisper silent.
Topic: I finally made myself one... (Read 2211 times)
