This is my first Osage selfbow, I received a 4" in log in Feb. of this year. It took me awhile to finish this bow. It shoots better than I expected and I'm very happy with the results. I hope this bow will last. Let me know what you think.
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Not bad at all for your first bow. You could get the limbs bending a bit closer to the fades. It does look you are about to hinge about 1/3 out the right limb. Will you post an unbraced pic so we can see the profile. Pat
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The bow is not perfectly straight and has allot of character, the tiller looks off, because of the nature of this bow.
Not a bad first bow at all. The handle area could be reduced, seems like a lot of wood that ain't being bent.
The handle is 1" thick, I don't want to reduce it anymore, the bow is 64" NTN 40#@27".
I meant the length seemed a bit long.
Here's the handle reduced.
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Real nice first! Cool!