Her first selfbow!

[shamus]

After getting my True Love started on an Pearson All American recurve, I made her a white oak selfbow. The bow is 62" long, 23# @26". Cane grip. 4 coats of helmsman spar urethane. She likes the selfbow a lot better than the recurve. I went for a more elliptical tiller in order to eke some extra performance from the lighter draw weight.

 More details here.  

 

[BMN]

Nice job!

[madness522]

Thats a good looking bow!  Tell me more about the cane grip. Its hard to see in the pic.

[shamus]

cane grip: 6mm binder cane (from the craft store).

 

[Shaun]

Real nice bow and your sweetie has great shooting form. Deadly combination.

[JAG]

Nice bow, & sweetie.  Watch out she may enjoy hunting more than you do!  My Bride is almost that bad!

[shamus]

Shaun, thanks for the compliment. She's really worked hard on her form. when we go to the range she'll pick one thing to work on and we work on that.

[ber643]

Nice looking bow and handle, Shamus, and it looks like your lady is progressing by leaps and bounds.

[Shaun]

I clicked on you link above this morning, too funny with the trad archer stare. You are right, she does it better hat or no. I would hate to see "the look", you know the fists on hips one we get when we misspeak! Good Hunting! to you both.

[frassettor]

Nice!!