The Dark Fleur-De-Lys, again!

[OZ in MT]

Thank you, PB, for deleting my embarrassing mess. Let's try this again.

[OZ in MT]

OK, I know, not very professional pix. I'm a newbie at the pic thing, but I promise to improve. In the first pic, you can see how I removed the old Sammick locater pin by cutting flush with the limb pad. Yeah, Bob, it was glued in. The good news was I was left with a nice solid brass base for drilling the new Quinn locater pin holes. Next problem was the Stallion limb butts. They're almost straight whereas the Sammick's pad base contained a second locater pin to go in a slot at the elongated base of the Sammick Woodsman limbs. After fitting the Stallion limbs to the pads, I created two identical (well, ok, almost identical) rosewood wedges with slots for the big pad butt locators, set two tiny pins in the pad base so I could hold them in, but later remove whenever I wanted to switch back to the heavier Sammick 54# limbs. In the second pic you can just make out the wedge profile at the base of the pad, and how the Stallion limbs butt against it. The rosewood, of course, doesn't perfectly match the bubinga wedges in the Stallions, but is close enough to create a blend. The Stallion limbs are a perfectly matched 40.5 #, and on the longer, steeper Woodsman they made a nice, smooth shooting 62" takedown that draws 36# at 28". This gives me around 38# at my 29" draw. For me, it's the perfect target bow when my shoulder is nagging. I shot all day with it last Sat. At this poundage, the heavy Sammick riser feels stable and dead in the hand. It will drive a Cheetah 25/45 with authority. An added benefit is that I can grab my head critter, strip off the sling, plunger and rest and pass as a mild mannered Tradborg! :p Well, maybe not, but it'll be good for at least one try.

When I thought I was done with this bad black and rose puppy, it spoke to my spirit: I got a strong image of a mideval double-stemmed Fleur-De-Lys symbol. Out came the white, red and black phenolic, and the result is in the last two photos. A lot of work, but fun, and it got me out of the pool hall for a while.

[Biblethumpncop]

Well done!

[Bulldog-RI]

SWEET!!looking bow!

[BowDonkey]

Pretty nice OZ.

[OZ in MT]

Thanks, Guys. The best part is the way it shoots!

[Bob Gordon]

Well done OZ, now of course you know you are hooked on this warfing thing as we speak I bet you are thinking of the next one and the next shoot you go to you will bring a tape measure and scare people by asking to mess with there bows!~...lol..Don't worry though I understand there are some programs being set up to help us deal with our affliction and the search for a cure is a high priority with some clinic's...warf (the cause of it all)

[OZ in MT]

Yeah, Bob, it looks like I could use the rehab. The program will probably cost me a lot less than this expensive habit. :p

[Esquire]

Ah, that is very nice. How did I miss this thread for so long?