It's finished...

[Yew Selfbow]

Over the past week, I've been building my first long bow under the watchfull expert eye of Pip Bickerstaffe and his collegues at his Kegworth workshop and now it's finished. The bow is for indoor shooting,(50lb@28 1/2") and is a laminate of an Osage belly, Bloodwood, Maple and Bamboo core with a Bamboo backing. The arrow plate is milky white Indian Samba deer horn and the almost transparent nocks are from an English dairy Longhorn Cow.
... and does it shoot....you bet it does.....

[tel]

Well done! I imagine there is a great deal of satisfaction to be had from 'doing-it-yourself'.

[Yew Selfbow]

Tel
.... you're so right..
It's one of those things I've always wanted to do, but didn't have the "bottle" to get on and do it. I have to say, Pip and his collegues were excellent tutors, they knew exactly when to leave me alone and when to expertly guide me through the tricky bits.

[TJ Mason]

Nice work! Very brave to tackle osage and lamination with your first bow, too. Any photos of it, please?

[Dave]

Nice one YS Must see photos

That's a great achievement, well done. have a

I bet a lot of longbow archers get as much satisfaction creating a longbow as they do shooting it. Given the time I would love to do the same. I love making arrows my self. Shooting them is of secondary importance. Footed arrows are a thing of beauty, can't make them as yet. Not a clue how to do it. One day I may have a go.

Regards

Rich

[Yew Selfbow]

Hi T.J.
The Osage was a bit tricky, so was preparing the bamboo for the core and backing, but like I said, I had true expert guiding hands.
I've got dozens of pictures of the whole process, from lamination, tillering, to fitting the nocks and arrow plate. The problem is I'm not that computer literate to know how to post them. If someone has any suggestions I'd be delighted to share them.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Yew Selfbow

The problem is I'm not that computer literate to know how to post them. If someone has any suggestions I'd be delighted to share them.

Clicki has written a tutorial here - any problems, let me know.

http://www.archery-interchange.com/f...ead.php?t=1217

[Yew Selfbow]

O.K. lets see if this works

http://photobucket.com/albums/e158/Yewselfbow/

[tikkabhoona]

Nice looking bow, really like the white horn nocks. what glue did you use for the laminations? I have been using cascamite with reasonable results. once again well done.