One for Roadie and his mate
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:27 am
Couple of months back Roadie asked me if it would be possible for me to make him up an ELB for himself and possibly a mate of his down that way that's always wanting to borrow one of his bows...
Now knowing Roadie only shoots ELB's, I was a little shocked and very honoured that he would want one of my bows.
After a brief discussion about the design we came up with a 36-38lb @28", 72-74" ntn, hickory back, horn nocks and "make it a bit fancy" were the words he used I believe
the rest was up to me.
Few weeks passed while I was working on other projects then I finally got round to making it up in a hope that it would make it down for the Mildura Trad shoot (courier let me down on that one
)
In an effort to "make it a bit fancy" I decided on a tri-lam of hickory back, Lemonwood core and Massaranduba belly, bit of reflex in the glue up for some added performance... dressed with a buffalo horn arrow pass and 2 tone leather grip I think it turned out pretty well...
Came in a tad under weight initially but at 74 ntn I had room to moved and after consultations we decided to shorten it and it finished up bang on weight we were after.
Unfortunately I ran out of fast flight string so had to send it off with a Dacron one so it was a bit slow.
Here's what I came up with...
Forgot to get photos of the tips and don't have any at full draw after it was shortened...
Hopefully Roadie will get a few of it in action at some point. Id love to see it being shot down there.
Hope the owner gets a few good years out of it now with much enjoyment.
Cheers for the opportunity mate!!
Colin.
Now knowing Roadie only shoots ELB's, I was a little shocked and very honoured that he would want one of my bows.
After a brief discussion about the design we came up with a 36-38lb @28", 72-74" ntn, hickory back, horn nocks and "make it a bit fancy" were the words he used I believe
the rest was up to me.Few weeks passed while I was working on other projects then I finally got round to making it up in a hope that it would make it down for the Mildura Trad shoot (courier let me down on that one
)In an effort to "make it a bit fancy" I decided on a tri-lam of hickory back, Lemonwood core and Massaranduba belly, bit of reflex in the glue up for some added performance... dressed with a buffalo horn arrow pass and 2 tone leather grip I think it turned out pretty well...
Came in a tad under weight initially but at 74 ntn I had room to moved and after consultations we decided to shorten it and it finished up bang on weight we were after.
Unfortunately I ran out of fast flight string so had to send it off with a Dacron one so it was a bit slow.
Here's what I came up with...
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Hopefully Roadie will get a few of it in action at some point. Id love to see it being shot down there.
Hope the owner gets a few good years out of it now with much enjoyment.
Cheers for the opportunity mate!!
Colin.