I finally made myself one...

[Mike Mecredy]

After being in the boywer business for 16 years, I finally got around to making myself a bow.   It's 64" long, 47# @ 28"  the riser is made of mostly Bolivian rose wood and Osage orange with multiple stripes of various other woods, red elm core laminations and green fiberglass.  It's a string follow ASL, called the Follower Extreme on my line up.   Out of all the other models I make, I shoot this one the most consistently.   When it comes to speed and such it's not my favorite design, it's clearly not as fast as the others, of the hybrid, and D/R profile.  But after some experimenting with taper rates and riser length, and what not, I got this design to behave well and I shoot it better than the others.  So, I fit it into my normal work load, spread over some weeks, I worked on it a bit here and there, while I waited for epoxy to cure and finish to dry and got this one done.     [attachment=1][attachment=2][attachment=3]

[fmscan]

Mike, Glad you made yourself an early Christmas present. It is really a very nice looking bow, that riser is outstanding.

[Pine]

 

[dnovo]

Very Nice!

[kennym]

Nice job Mike !!

[electricstart]

Fine work ,Looks great enjoy your new bow

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Nice Job 

[Bvas]

Can't believe it took you so long to make yourself one Mike.

Guess you were just waiting to get everything perfect. 

Love the "rainbow of wood" riser. 

[rastaman]

Nice job Mike! 

[Deno]

 

[Mike Mecredy]

Over the years, making bows, lots of them and selling them. Now and then I'd get one that the customer didn't pay for, so I'd use it for a while.  Eventually somebody would want it, and buy it.  I've noticed myself, whilst testing out bows I made for customers, spending a little more time, trying out the ASL bows I made.  I couldn't seem to put them down.
    So I had this piece of Bolivian rosewood, and whenever I had extra glue, at the end of a glue up, I'd use it to put another strip of wood, (around .125" thick)  on that piece of wood.  Eventually, I had a bunch of stripes of wood, of various species, and I put on that final piece of Osage orange, that happened to be just the right shape, after very little sanding.  So knowing I'd probably never get a request for such a configuration from a customer, I decided hence, that riser block was mine, and the rest of the story ended up as this bow.  And like other follower extreme longbows, I can't put this one down.  It likes straight fletched, POC arrows, 500 grain, 45-50# spine, and the 14 strand 8125 string I made for it.  No silencers needed, it's whisper silent.   

[Possum Head]

Yeah you don't see many ASLs with that much variety in the riser. Maybe you've started something there Mike! I love it and tend to favor green over other colored glass.

[ronp]

Very nice!

[supernaut]

That's a real pretty bow Mike and I'm glad you got one made for yourself. Enjoy it in good health! 

[shoes]

Yes, I really like the added color in the riser too! Great you had time for one for yourself.

[ron w]

  looks great

[Grizzly63]

Very nice looking bow!!

[M60gunner]

I like it, better off being part of a bow than knife scales or a cutting board.

[SlowBowKing]

Very cool! They always say the carpenter's house needs the most repair, guess the same can be said for the bowyer!

[Roy from Pa]