My first bow I made by myself.

[Deer Slayr]

How's it look. I like to think I did a good job.     It is a hickory bow 70# @ 28" Shoots good.    . Does the tiller look good??? The left limb is the top one.

 

[Pat B]

The tiller at brace looks good. How about a full draw and unbraced pic. Pat

[Deer Slayr]

Sure Pat I will post one tomorrow.

[sulphur]

i agree with pat, tiller looks good but full draw tells the tale.  nice job.

[Deer Slayr]

Well upon looking at the full draw pics the top lomb looks HORRIBLE it needs work don't it???

[Pat B]

Yeh, that top limb needs a little work. Looks like too much bend right at the fade then flat and then bending then flat again at mid limb. It shouldn't take too much scraping to get that done so go slow.
  On self bows, the only way to see good tiller is at full draw. Pat

[Shaun]

I don't know, looks dang good for a first bow. Maybe a little flat spot just above the fade on top but way better than my first one, or the next several after that. How does it shoot?

[Deer Slayr]

It shoots darts. It is a really good shooter.

[bjansen]

Nice Job!!!

[The Gopher]

like pat said, a little scraping will fix it right up. i have made horrible bows, believe me that bow is far from horrible. especially at 70# you have plenty of weight to work with, unless you were really set on a 70# bow, good luck, Dan.

[Springbuck]

Nice job, and probably even better once you "fix" those few little spots.

 Also, be sure you are pulling from exactly where you expect an arrow to nock,both by hand and on the board...

[va]

Deer Slayr - if you saw the whip-tillered ugly stick I made the first time out, you would laugh til the tears came.

Good work and keep it up.  Every bow teaches you something.

By the way - you awful young to be pullin 70#.  I hope you don't get mad easy.

[Deer Slayr]

The bow I WAS working on just BLEW UP. Kinda gets ya down dosen't it  :(

[tim-flood]

Did it blow at the top fade?? it looks like the grain runs off right there!!  the bottom limb looks great.  it has started now!!! gottta make a better one now!!

[Pat B]

If you ain't breakin' em, you ain't makin' em!  Sorry it broke but study the break and see what caused it. If you learn from it you are still ahead. Now its time to start another.     Pat

[soopernate]

You definitely want to get it down before you try selling them (saw your ambition on another post) The last thing you want is a law suit over someone getting hurt if it DOES blow.

[Deer Slayr]

Ya'll misunderstand. The bow in the pic is FINE shootin' better than ever. I was working on a bow with a piece of hickory that had a lot of runups on it, we are running out of wood, That's the one that blew up not this one. Thanks Brandon

[soopernate]

Why so testy? I never said that your bow BROKE....I said you want to make sure everything is good and long lasting before you try selling them as you asked. Lawsuits are not fun and lets face it we are largely SUIT happy in this society.  Your defensiveness is kind of concerning to me.  Sorry if I offended with what I thought was sound advice.

[Deer Slayr]

Not a problem. I'm a little jumpy right now. Sorry

[Minuteman]

Your response was not at all "testy" in my estimation.