From time to time I really enjoy working on simple stick bows, with a round diameter at handle and tapering somehow to the tips. Here is one of those quick made sticks, an Euonymus europaeus branch harvested in my garden just a months or so ago.
You can see the origin diameter of the branch at the handle, its only ¾”, nearly nothing. The right place for the arrow is marked with a pigment ring, the nocks are made with a rawhide strip and sinew.
The stick was straight but took an inch set.
Euonymus is good bowwood, can be polished like bone, but is without much structure or grain contrast – looks a lot like bone.
Mass is 312 grams
61” ntn
The low poundage makes it just right a beginners bow and whenever it get blown, nothing is lost. A next is quick made.
10”: 6,5
12”: 10;1 (+ 3,6)
14”: 13,5 (+ 3,4)
16”: 16,7 (+ 3,2)
18”: 19,8 (+ 3,1)
20”: 22,9 (+ 3,1)
22”: 26,0 (+ 3,1)
24”: 29,0 (+ 3,0)
26”: 32,0 (+ 3,0)
28”: 35,0 (+ 3,0)
