Black walnut & Red elm bow

**DONOTDELETE** · August 20, 2008, 12:45:00 PM

Well I was working on a friends bow and the Postal person dropped off a box from KennyM. Yes I ordered a slate from Kenny. It's a Black Walnut.
.625" Thick X 2.5" wide X 68" long and a piece of red elm for the handle area.

My lay out I was thinking would be at first a Modoc bow
56" n2n
2.5" at the widest (fades)
1" wide X 4" long handle
.75" thick at the center of handle
.75" at tips

looking to get 50#@24" Here is a pic of the 2 pieces of wood.

Black Walnut ( sorry for the bad pic )

Red Elm handle wood

I'll be backing it with linen, with a tru-oil finish

**DONOTDELETE** · August 20, 2008, 12:58:00 PM

Thanx again Kenny, great looking wood.

I want to hear from others before I start laying it out.

Pluck Yew · August 20, 2008, 02:42:00 PM

Oh..Oh.. Sal me too..

...whats next? came today out of the blue..BBH..and hickory backed red elm..

Shawn..

**DONOTDELETE** · August 20, 2008, 04:35:00 PM

they the ones you won?

Pluck Yew · August 20, 2008, 07:37:00 PM

Sal, these came from pine hollow longbows, still waiting on hickory stave...these are me practice build bows...anyway..hopeing you build faster than I..so I can learn as I go eh?

Shawn...

**DONOTDELETE** · August 20, 2008, 08:21:00 PM

lol... OK, BUt thinking about it a Modoc might not work since the slate is thinner then .75" and I don't want to brake it. So now I'm thinking of doing either a 54" pyramid or a 64" pyramid style.

Pluck Yew · August 25, 2008, 11:43:00 AM

Sal, what did you decide? You still think slat is to thin for Modoc? I know you are probably working on something..or just being lazy like me?

Shawn...

**DONOTDELETE** · August 25, 2008, 12:45:00 PM

I'm out of yown right now, But I'm thinking of doing a 60" pyramid bow. I really like the pyramid style bows. I'll be working on bows when I get home on Wednesday.

Pluck Yew · August 25, 2008, 09:44:00 PM

Ahhiite; But I been in the garage all day winging it...one almost down one to go.. :cool:

Shawn...