finish effect handshock?

[maineac]

I recently refinished a take down longbow that had a small area of finish that had chipped off the back of the top limb.  I went with tru-oil after posting  question on this forum.  It took three coats for me to get the even finish I wanted.  Now the bow has hand-shock that I did not remember from before I refinished it (admittedly I had not shot the bow in a bout a year).  I know it is a total newb question but don't know what else would have changed on the bow.

[okie64]

Did you sand one limb more than the other? Hand shock is usually caused by limb timing being off. If you did some sanding and sanded more off of one limb than the other that couldve caused it.

[Roy Steele]

Hand shock comes from basicly 2 things. The bows tillered to where one limb finishs before the other.
  Or the last 4inchs of the bows tips are to heavy. My bows have no nosisable hand shock. Through good tillering and makeing the last 4 inchs of my tips small to where they just don't been. Never more than 3/8's wood like OSAGE 1/4".

[johnny girardi]

I think you may have taken off the string and lost braceheight.check string.Bow finish (tungoil) will not give bow hand shock. John G

[maineac]

I only did a light sand on the whole bow to give the oil a surface to grab.  I sanded the area around the blemish to get rid of the edges created by the chipped finish, but the area was about the size of a dime.  Ill check the brace height, but whenever I take a string off a bow I loop the ends into each other to prevent the string from unwinding any.

[Art B]

You said you haven't shot this bow in awhile. What have you been shooting other than this bow? Bet you've changed your grip/hand position shooting other bows and then applied that same grip to this bow. Try different hand positions for best limb timing.

[Sal]

Light sanding should not have any effect on the bow.

My guess is the same as Art, its not the bow its your "memory".  Often, a "sweet shooting bow" will feel like a mule after shooting a "sweeter shooting bow".

I used to shoot a Hill style longbow for years and loved it.  I then switched to a reflex/deflex longbow and now the other bow feels like a mule and a dog.

[johnny girardi]

thats true that old sweet shooter you remember may just have turned into a monster

[mzombek]

If your tiller is +1/4" on top limb and your brace hight good, will changing from split fingers to 3 under change hand shock?

[7 Lakes]

Unless your memory has faded you need to go back to your heavy arrows.

Neither light sanding nor a new finish can cause handshock but light arrows will.