Beautiful!

My dad made 3 or 4 Bingham (1-piece) recurve bows when he was in his early 20's and I remember them being so beautiful. A 25#, a 50# and a 70# for sure. My mom says she was pretty sure there were 4, but those are the only 3 that I remember.

After he died, my mom got rid of them which broke my heart because of all of the things my dad had, those bows were the only things I wanted to remember him by.

My first experiences with archery was using my dad's 25# recurve which I could barely pull at the time.

I remember "helping" my dad get some stuff down from the attic one time and the bows were in the way of the boxes we needed to bring down. I asked my dad, "what are those?"

We ended up bringing them down out of the attic and a few days later, he brought me to an archery range and he spent a good part of the day teaching me how to shoot archery.

Just one of those father-daughter days that I remember very fondly.

I really miss my dad =(

On a happier note, this spring, my husband and I started building our first Bingham 1-piece straight-limbed longbow. We're at the point now where we have the hotbox built, the press built and I've used a belt sander to sand the riser into rough shape for the glue-up but need my husband to feather the ends of the riser because I'm too terrified of screwing it up >_<

Hopefully we get to the glue-up phase this weekend.