Sold, July 2025
Bamboo-backed ipe longbow, 45 lb
Bamboo on the back, ipe on the belly: 45# at 28", 55# at 32", 72" overall.
- Draw weight
- 45# at 28" · 55# at 32"
- Length
- 72"
- Woods
- Bamboo, Ipe
- Built
- Bamboo-backed, with an ipe belly
- Tips
- Custom buffalo horn
- Strike plates
- Inlaid, right and left handed
- Handle
- Deer skin and sinew wrap
- Finish
- Three coats of hand-rubbed satin hard wax oil
- String
- B-55 Flemish twist, with a B-55 stringer
$289as listed, July 2025
This bow has sold. Tell me your draw length and the weight you're after, and I'll make you one like it.
Draw this bow
- 28"
- 45#
- 32"
- 55#
The draw weights as I listed them.
In my words
A bamboo backing on an ipe belly, one of my everyday English longbows: 45# at 28", 55# at 32", 72" overall.
Like every bow I make, it had custom buffalo horn tips, right and left handed inlaid strike plates, a deer skin and sinew handle wrap, and three coats of hand rubbed satin hard wax oil, built to the specs for proper longbows. It came with a B-55 Flemish twist string, a B-55 stringer and my one-year full replacement warranty.
This is the one photo of it I can show you here: the horn tip and the upper limb, unstrung.
What every bow comes with
- Custom buffalo horn tips, shaped by hand
- Inlaid strike plates, right and left handed
- A deer skin and sinew handle wrap, if you want one
- Three coats of hand-rubbed satin hard wax oil
- Built to the specs for proper longbows
- A B-55 Flemish twist string and a B-55 stringer
- A one-year full replacement warranty. If anything goes wrong with the bow from workmanship or material within a year, I'll replace it at no cost to you.
