a bow is born

Mike Vines · January 18, 2011, 06:21:00 PM

holy fricken sweeeeeeeeet. You did an amazing job.

Rick Butler · January 18, 2011, 06:23:00 PM

Wow!!

glenbo · January 18, 2011, 06:28:00 PM

Super job Ruddy!Looks great at full draw.Most of my bows are Hickory due to my access in the woods out back,but every now and then I treat myself to an Osage steve.Love the Osage,Glen

getstonedprimitivebowhunt · January 18, 2011, 06:29:00 PM

Dang..very nice ..I got one of thoses sleeves. Its in my near future bow too.. SWEET !

razorsharptokill · January 18, 2011, 06:37:00 PM

Tiller looks good from here! What sized sleeve is that?

YORNOC · January 18, 2011, 06:38:00 PM

cant wait to see what it can do in the hunting season

Mudd · January 18, 2011, 06:43:00 PM

Cool!!!

Thank you for sharing.

God bless,Mudd

broketooth · January 18, 2011, 06:56:00 PM

i big thanks to everyone for showing an interest, it really means a lot , ruddy

raghorns · January 18, 2011, 06:57:00 PM

Always nice to see quality workmanship...especially in a bow.

Two Wolves · January 18, 2011, 07:05:00 PM

Pure "Death on a String". Looks great!

tradtusker · January 18, 2011, 07:11:00 PM

2 piece, that's nice work Ruddy

broketooth · January 18, 2011, 07:13:00 PM

razorsharptokill, that is the smaller of the 2 sleeves that are offerd from 3 rivers. iim actually smaller than bernie is. just ask batman, im a little pipsqueak. batman and john dill are extemely huge compared to my sorry narrow a$$. thats why the handle looks bigim about 5'9 so a 63" bow just meets the proper fit for shootin a bow

ber643 · January 18, 2011, 07:49:00 PM

LOL- I wouldn't say those two are "Huge" (exactly - LOL) but Ruddy and I are kinda like a couple of fugitives from a Pygmy head shrinking festival - except for my ears - :D

Y'all really do need to check out the Full Magilla thread on the build, in the Bowyer's bench forum. Ruddy did more than a fine job, and took all of us along with him on the trip in "traditional" fashion. If you like it here, you'll love it there. You'll get the ups and downs (and all the scary fun) of a bow build - LOL.

Cyclic-Rivers · January 18, 2011, 09:51:00 PM

Incredible

January 18, 2011, 09:59:00 PM

Very cool indeed! I have always admired the true bowyers...like you guys that can transform a chunk of wood into a masterpiece. I have built laminated longbows but have stayed away from self bows. To me, what you have done takes much more skill and patience than it does to build a lam bow.

She's a beaut!

longbowben · January 18, 2011, 10:40:00 PM

Great job

Frenchymanny · January 18, 2011, 10:43:00 PM

Wow, what a beauty!!!

F-Manny

ber643 · January 19, 2011, 05:38:00 PM

Today i was honored by the fact that Ruddy brought his Newly finished 2 Piece Osage Selfbow down for me to see and for us to shoot a little. We had a ball, both shooting the bow and shooting the bull about bows, arrows, etc. I tell you in all truth i was really impressed with Ruddy's bow - and I have some very nice all wood Primitive and selfbows in my collection.

I found the bow to look great (as we've seen in the pictures) but also to draw smooth, shoot with little or no noticeable hand shock, be very quiet (even with no silencers yet applied). The bow seems to require a pretty good cant - at least with both me and Ruddy shooting it (a little bit more with me). It is a sweet and accurate shooter as long as the archer does his part. I grabbed two each of some of my River cane arrows, Tonkin Cane arrows, Cedar Arrows by Bill Stroup, and some Ramin Dowel arrows That i made about 5 or 6 years back. The bow behaved very well with all of arrows (mostly in the 40-45 spine range and weighing close to 500 gr each). The bow really liked (as did Ruddy) the two river cane arrows (by Art B) and the two Tonkin canes (by StringStretcher). We shot at targets from about 8yds out to 41 yds both from the ground and from my tower. I think it is safe to say we were both impressed and enjoyed the afternoon of shooting - his was the only bow we shot today.

We did take a few pictures and I'll post a couple here but all of them will appear in Ruddy's thread in the Bowyer's Bench Forum. Wish you could have been there to soot this fine bow with us - but for now, enjoy the pics - LOL. Oh Ruddy draws about 28" I believe, I draw about 25".

This one Ruddy held it with a little less cant - just for viewing:

Check out the other thread for all the pics - Thanks for looking and thanks to Ruddy for the visit and shooting fun.

J-dog · January 19, 2011, 06:24:00 PM

Wow Tooth that is awesome!

You gonna carry that when we go south for hogs?

J

TDHunter · January 19, 2011, 06:30:00 PM

piece of Art