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Some works in progress from one of my hobbies....primative bow-making.
And my carpet is realy ugly...I know....

In the photo....The first is a Gemsbok horn bow ....waiting for handle wrap and string.
The next is an ash recurve from a beaver cut log. light at 40#, but shoots awsome and weighs nothing.
The third is ash from the same tree, an expiriment on limb shape that will be rawhide backed and tillered to an even 50#
The next 2 are red elm from opposite sides of the same tree. The first is mostly sapwood, but I didn't like the look of the sapwood on the second one, so I shaved it off and followed a thick growthring to make it all heartwood. It looks like an extreme amount of reflex, but I find that this wood always 'settles' some, and in the end I get the shape I want after the wood is content with it's new life as a bow.
The next 2 are osage...the first is edge grained, the second is flat...these will be sinew backed.
And the last is the first little horn-bellied bow....made out of scrap. After it is sinewed it will probably pull about 48#, I'm guessing.
Those are my works in progress from the last 2 1/2 weeks....