u/tomcioo96

Hello, I’d like to show you another bow I made, this time from a serviceberry sapling that was only 19 mm thick at the centre. I did not remove any wood from the handle section. The bow is 59 inches nock-to-nock and features stiff, slim, narrow-tipped levers.

Draw weight is 40 lbs at 30 inches, and the maximum recorded speed was 162 FPS (almost 50 m/s) with a 402-grain arrow.

The belly was heat treated — this type of wood responds very well to heat treatment, and it would honestly be a total waste not to do it.

The bow is finished with natural oils and shellac.