Cupid's Bow from Arrow TV Show

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This is a reproduction of the recurve bow used by the Cupid character in the CW TV show Arrow. The bow was made for a cosplay costume and designed to take apart so it will fit in luggage. The entire thing is split down the middle and printed in segments that fit on a Makerbot 2. There are 14 parts in total. Each arm is exactly the same so there are only 8 .stl files. The top and bottom (or left/right depending on how you look at it) halves are glued together. The 4 black arm parts are glued together into one piece. Then the handle and tips are connected with screws. I used #6-32 x 1in screws (sorry metric world, it's what I had lying around) and the recess on one side holds the nut in place so all you need to assemble it is a screwdriver. Also included is a model for the heart shaped arrow head. We glued that onto a real arrow shaft for the costume. The arrow head had a lot of post processing to make it smooth, but the bow was printed in black and read and used directly from the printer.