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Offline TroyH

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string follow question on self bows
« on: March 29, 2010, 08:57:00 PM »
Just finishing up an osage self bow and the string follow is around 1.75" after relaxed.  Is that a little excessive or pretty close to normal?
It is a 62" pulling around 50#@26" and seems to be a good shooter, though I haven't finished the handle area completely.
Is there anything that can be don't to help avoid it?  It understand that heat tempering the belly helps.  I am assuming that once the string follow has set in, there is nothing you can do to remove any of it.
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Offline John Scifres

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Re: string follow question on self bows
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 10:14:00 PM »
That's about right for follow for the first few bows.  After awhile you might get it to about 1" but that's the best I have ever done.  I generally assume 2" so I start with that much reflex bent in.

As far as fixing it, here is a fixalong I did a while back.  Fixit
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