finally got me an osage selfbow with rattlesnake skin on the limbs, and elk hoof tips. Has some decent zip to it. But man, I am not used to the handshock.

Another of the tips

Here is the belly. Looks like it has 4 coats of poly.

Send it to me and I'll shoot the handshock out of it for ya.

You're throwing gas on the fire, you know that? I'm getting the urge to make another bow and I just might finally throw down the cash for a snakey stave. Nice bow you got there!

Thanks Arthur. I have always wanted one like this. A guy on these forums promised to make one for me, and then never came thru. So I found someone else on tradgang.

The BH is set to 5.75". Does that sound reasonable? I have an email in to the original buyer. I figured I might raise it to 6" to 6.5" to see if an knock down that handshock. If your not careful, she will fly out of your hands.

I think I'd raise it up if it's jumping that bad. If you have to go to 6 1/2", I don't think it'll hurt, but naturally the lower you can go and still get acceptable shooting the better.

How does the tiller look? Sometimes a bow will thump the hand a little too hard if the tiller isn't quite right. You might need to to a little additional sanding to one limb or the other.

Cool, real cool! Is that the one I saw on tradgang for sale?

Tiller is within 1/4" not drawn, and gets better half drawn. I see he left some tiller marks on it. Little black dots up the limb. Thas where I measured. I thought that might be reasonable, but I am not a bow builder.

Looks nice. Id raise that BH too. and see. Twist that string up untill it gets better and see anyway.

My hunting bow is a snakey osage with copperheads. I love that there isn't another in the world like it.

Very nice Looks like someone did you proud with that one. Bump the brace up to 6". It won't hurt it at all.