Looks good. Shoot the tar out of it before you put hours into finsihing it. Trust me on that one.

Pearl Drums, I'll do that. I've never had a bow fail on me after I've gotten it to the point where I feel safe shooting it. First time for everything though  :p

It looks real nice.

awesome!

Looks like you cut through the back of your bow making the nocks which would weaken the tips. I would avoid  that in the future with some overlays. Nice job on the rest, congrats on another shooter.

Very nice tiller. Did you cut into the back at the nocks? Jawge

SH and Jawge, yeah I cut through the back for the tips. I usually use a tip overlay but I wanted to get the tips as light as possible for this bow. Also, this board is edge grained so cutting through the back isn't as important as it would be on a self bow. I did leave the tips there pretty thick compared to the rest of the bow.

Alright, got my sanding done and I sprayed a camo pattern on the drywall tape back. The back needs some sanding and I'm still going to stain the belly wood. For my sanding I smoothed everything with 80 grit followed by 120 then took my scraper and lightly scraped the wood. Then I took a burnishing rod and polished this bow smoother then an androids butt.    
 

Nice bow, Matt. Good job.

Well done, like the camo pattern  

Thanks for the kind words guys    I got the stain applied, its mostly a Colonial Oak color with a darker ebony on the handle and tips. It didn't come out as nice as my last bow but hey, it's just a hunting bow  :p
 

Pearl Drums, you jinxed me.       I've been shooting it for the past few days and just noticed that my handle is starting to delaminate. Oh well, I'm just going to pop it off, clean it up, glue it back down and then redo the stain there. Good thing I don't have the finish on yet.  :rolleyes:

I didnt jinx you buddy. I was just trying to save you hours of finish work. It will pop off again. Just leave it off and wrap the handle in jute or hemp twine rather. Let it bend.

I can't leave it off with that arrow cut out. This is the first time I've had a handle pop off and I think it's because my hand was getting sweaty and the humidity is high. TB2 is water *resistant*, it's TB3 thats waterproof. I'm going to try regluing and possibly wrapping the whole thing with fishing line and putting a wrap of some sort over it...

It seems that it is delaminating in one small section, I'm going to try to get warmed super glue into the crack and see if that holds up.

Well snap... literally, the handle cracked through the shelf, the super glue came apart... Is it possible to make a bendy handle bow with an arrow rest cut into it? If not, I'll have to resign this one to the scrap pile. Possibly I can cut off the old handle, sand it down and then glue a new one on.

Regardless, I need to get more wood and make another  :D

See the following website if you havent already for solutions to prevent your handle from popping off. Need to extend your fades into the belly wood.  http://poorfolkbows.com/ipe1.htm

Steve, I made my first 10 bows based on the red oak tutorial there. This is a narrower high draw weight bow though and apparently it couldn't take the stress. This was a bit of an experiment. so I'm not that upset.

Live and learn!

Yep. We learn more from our mistakes than our successes don't we?