don't have the fish scale), but on purpose I made it much lighter than
my 60# Kudu recurve.
It took me several hours, but I was able to shoot several dozen of
arrows and it is still in one piece.
I would preferably make the bow shorter than 72 inch, but in order to
keep a nice clearance of about 4 inches at the handle, the bow would
have to bend much more which I did not want to risk with poor maple I
had. I braided the bow string with six 15# strands of artificial
sinew, next one I will do with 9 strings.
In few days if the bow holds up, I will varnish it and make a nice
leather handle.
