Due to the major screw up with the bamboo slipping in the form it was neccesary to make these limbs pretty narrow or not have limbs at all! This picture with a 11/32 arrow point gives you some perspective on how small the tips are. :)

This was my first attempt at making a bow useing bamboo instead of glass.It was originally designed to be a 68" or 70" bow that hopefully would be about straight or maybe hold just a little reflex in the tips after being shot in. I used a 20" non bending riser with this in mind.It was doomed from the start when a piece of the bamboo slipped in the form during glue-up.The only way to possibly get a bow out of it was to cut the blank down untill I could get enough limb width.This caused me to wind up with a 62" bow with way too much riser for a 62" all wood bow.I decided I would just see far I could go with it before it blew up and hit me on the head anyway. LOL

  Well the limbs have a couple of crooks in them.They are way too stressed and too short.Once you get to 27" things start to get tight on the draw.A couple of the glue lines stand out to me. BUT, I have not broken it yet. It seems to take what I can throw at it.I have overdrawn it during tillering many times expecting the exposion any minuite. I shot it a lot cringing at the first few dozen arrows.I even pulled it back to my ear and dry fired it with a skinny d97 string  just to see if it would hold up before I did any finishing on it.The darn thing is still here so I sanded down and put a little poly on it. .If it survives untill the fall I will use it for hunting treerats.

Sometimes you just have to stop playing, give in , and call it a bow. : )

Specs 62"  48 @27'   Cocobola / tigerwood riser with edge grain maple,elm and red cedar lams.Bamboo back  and belly

Well at least it will fit in my quiver better than a longer one!