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Tajue17
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selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 01:45:00 PM »
i have this bow here and to me the top limb looks a little stiff at brace. I cannot shoot this right now cause of the 50 mile an hour winds and below zero temps out side and right now I cannot have someone check it from the side at full draw.
for now though whats your opinion based on what you see? top limb is pointed left and brace is about 5 3/4".
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Mechslasher
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 01:53:00 PM »
the brace looks fine except for the waves about a third up from the fades. they can throw off the way a tiller will look. it will be hard to say for sure until you get a full draw pic.
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 02:05:00 PM »
OK I'll get a full draw pic when the wife gets home
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NorthShoreLB
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 02:31:00 PM »
Looks nice, If anything seems to have a bit of negetive tiller from here, did you try mesure it ??
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 03:28:00 PM »
To me the outer third of the left limb looks a little stiff.
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 04:44:00 PM »
Looks pretty good so far, but as Cade said it would be good to see a drawn or partially drawn pic on a tiller stick or tree. Matt
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 05:40:00 PM »
looks pretty good to me. You could always try drawing the outline and flipping it around to compare...Terry
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Tajue17
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March 08, 2007, 06:16:00 PM »
okay seems the camera decided to take crappy pics but you can see the bow fairly good..
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 08, 2007, 10:07:00 PM »
Upper limb is a little flat right out of the fade and just above the dip at midlimb.Lower limb looks good but check it after any adjustments on the upper.Has the bow been shot in?
Paul
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March 08, 2007, 10:41:00 PM »
Taj, looks good. Did you make it? Jawge
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 01:07:00 AM »
I agree with PV, the upper limb looks a little stiff/stronger then the lower one.
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 02:07:00 AM »
I agree with Jawge and PV. It looks good, but the top limb could bend a little more just out of the fade.
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 11:22:00 AM »
you're almost there. the bottom limb looks to have a stiff spot just past midlimb. the top needs a little more scraping just past the fade and past midlimb.
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Tajue17
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March 09, 2007, 02:57:00 PM »
this is making me nervous if from what you see how much more wood you think needs to come off in those areas to get this to start bend,, (ex;30 passes on the tip of the top limb and 12 passes for the bottom--> as an basic rough example) and do you have a break period with tillering or just keep going non-stop till it bends?
I'm wondering at this point if this will go to one of them back and fourth things and then I've lost 15pounds in draw weight?
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 07:04:00 PM »
Actually,I agree with 4runr and Mechslasher.The outer 1/3 needs to be worked a little.Maybe 20 scrapes and 10 scrapes near the fades.Exercise the limbs a while and check again.I wouldn't touch the bottom limb.
Depending on the poundage you are going for and where you are at,at the moment.There is also another train of thought: you can shorten the lower limb to stiffen it.Which will also increase your poundage if you are trying to play catch up.
Either way,make sure you continue to exercise.
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Lincoln E. Farr
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 07:41:00 PM »
Small adjustments are the name of the game. Like Linc said exercise a bunch after you scrape.
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Tajue17
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March 09, 2007, 08:16:00 PM »
okay gentleman I thank you for the advice,, I'll post better pics when this is finished.
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Re: selfbow bowyers, need opinion on this tiller?
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March 09, 2007, 08:36:00 PM »
The thing that makes it hard is that we don't know what the stave looked like when you started.
I assume those kinks are just naturally snakey spots in the stave.
But was the stave otherwise uniform, or were there reflexed or deflexed sections?
Unless the stave was straight, while the tips should move evenly, the bow should not have a uniform curve. If the stave was snakey and has a uniform curve, some wood is stressed more than other.
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