Recent pictures of my bow I am building

[stinkbelly]

Here are some pictures from this weekend of my bow I am building. The previous pictures can be found at this link.http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=263911

I put the zebra wood on it last Wednesday or so. I got time this weekend to trim it up and clean up the huge glue mess. I rounded all the edges and rough sanded it. I lost a little weight, but I expected that. I am about 43# at 28". I exptect it to be closer to 40# when I am done.

I shot it at 24" and 26" draw length yesterday. The pictures below show the first 5 arrows at each draw length.

From back to belly through the handle I have: Zebra wood, hickory, redo oak, popler, red oak, then cedar.

[Ron]

That is a beautiful bow and it appears to shoot great too.

[bountyhunter]

Looking good!!! Really waiting to see what she looks like once you get her all finished. BTW great groups!!

[agtex42]

Looking good, all these build threads lately have really been catching my attention. Maybe sometime this spring or summer I'll have to give one a try.

[Bisch]

Cool! From those groups it looks like it is going to work.

Bisch

[trad"Doc"53]

Great looking bow!!!

[stinkbelly]

What should I use to seal the bow?

[meangene1969]

good looking

[gatorgar]

True oil works wonders for sealing. The last one I built, I used spray on poly.

Good looking bow and nice shooting.

[Trick]

I've used Berchwood Casey Tru-oil on gun stocks using progressively finer steel wool between coats and it looks great, and holds up. I guess it would work just as well on a bow.

Looks like a good bow. Congrats!

Matt

[Loreva13]

Good looking bow!

[TxNurse]

Looking good. Tru-Oil is used by some of the pro bowyers, and is hard to beat. I sometimes use a wipe-on polyurethane or tung oil. If I want a nce low gloss finish real fast, I use Deft satin Cear Wood Finish spray, which is actually a lacquer.

[Ron Meloni]

Yup, Tru-Oil.

[ElfEyes]

SB that bow looks awesome and nice shooting

[bob sarrels]

Great job.