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George Tsoukalas
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Your doing a fine job. Don't think of it as twist. Think of it as character. [Smile] Jawge
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Lost Arra
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George: sometimes I do better if I don't think at all! [bigsmyl]
Someone here (I think it was Stan) called it "paralysis by analysis".

This afternoon after looking again at your Aerobow and with Ted's encouragement to skip the heat gun I just jumped in with both feet and now she's done. 62" and a little over 60#@28 right now but I've only shot about 20 arrows and I'm not finished sanding so I'm hoping for about 55#. I really need some advice on shaping limb tips. Mine always look like "thumbs".

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Dang Bob you are getting good at this game. Nice looking bow. I have a thing on my website about shaping tips and overlays that may help.

http://groups.msn.com/ferretsarcherywebpage/installingtipoverlays.msnw

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rocdoc
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Nice job Bob!!!

I knew I should have given you some 'trashwood' at McAlaster....then you wouldn't have know any better. That's not a twisted limbed bow, it's just Osage ;-)

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You wouldn't have knowN any better either ;-)

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Doug: you are the one that spoiled me! 1/8" rings and straight as a string for my first osage bow. I thought all osage was supposed to look like that!

I had planned on bringing this to OJAM for advice but I couldn't wait.

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Dang that's a perty tiller! Nice job! [thumbsup]

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S-w-e-e-t looking bow ya got there Bob. [thumbsup]

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Bob,

I've been sending people wood for a lot of years. This year has been great for seeing the chunks of wood I send out turned into bows. I had one customer email me a pic of a doe he killed with a bow made from some wood I sent him. Then HunterDFK makes that awesome ambush bow. And now this! What a great tiller. Congrats. Great job. Those tips don't look bad to me.

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If you get more of that "twisted" wood that you don't want to mess with, just give me a shout. That is straighter than anything I have ever had. I'm with Ted. Tiller it and shoot it. That slight twist won't hurt you at all.

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Looks like another beautiful wood bow to me.Great job on the tiller

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That twist doesn't look like anything I would worry about much. Looks pretty good actually. Steve
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Beautifull Tiller !!!


that wasn't a twist [bigsmyl] You try trick us [bigsmyl]

60# 62" that's nice


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George Tsoukalas
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Outstanding. Well done. Great tiller. I basically shape the nocks to fit my stringer which I rearely use these days anyway. There's some info on my site. Check the buildlalongs. A 4 way rasp works well for nocks. Jawge
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J Scifres: I hope to send you a photo of something shot by this bow! Sorry I failed to give credit to the source of this wood (while I whined about the "twist").

I know the twist didn't look like much to the experienced guys here but it had a novice like me worried at first. Even at first brace it looked pretty shakey, kind of like an old recurve that had been improperly strung.

As the tillering progressed I kept thinking about a sentence in Dean's book:
" The only meaningful criterion which should be applied to the tillered bow is what it does at full draw."
And to tell the truth, this bow looks it's best only at full draw.

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