Ultra wavy yew selfbow by John Strunk

[Ray Hammond]

Chet Stevenson made bows like that...in the book "In the Den of the Old Bowhunter" there are some photos of him holding bows of that caliber.

One has a snake head on one tip, and tail on the other!!!

That's beautiful.

[Ghost Dog]

TTT for Manny

[tim-flood]

Now that is a bow, until  you tiller one of those and you go right back to board bows!!!

[Brock]

I have seen either a hawthorn or vine maple with all the bumps...fur trimmed grip...beautiful.

[nineworlds9]

John is the man!  That yew bow is nutso!  I'm so happy I recently acquired one of his masterpieces.  And I just picked up another selfbow to add to the stable with the Strunk Osage ELB      I'm really falling in love with selfbows period lately.  Natural progression after falling in love with Hill bows.  Anyway, It's a 72" yew ELB made by staticrecurve (aka Wes Martin).  Horn nocks and all, got a couple knots here and there, bit of a character bow, can't wait for it to arrive and show it off  

[coaster500]

That is an amazing piece of work...  from my tiny bit of experience building selfbows I am in awe off bows like this and the talent it takes to work a stave like this.....

Masterpiece!!!!


         

[Butchie]

That's cool.  Put a snakeskin on the back and it may just bite ya!

[limbolt]

I'd love to see it at full draw,(hint,hint).