Building a Hill Style Longbow, Problem

[kennym]

8# !! Wheeew! Yeah, its gonna put a lot of pressure on the fades at that rate. Gotta get the outer limbs bending more.

I'm with Mike and Chuck. Keep after it.

[Mike Taylor2]

Thanks again for all yall's help.  I'm going to narrow the last 1/3 of each limb to a little less than 1/2 at the tips and see what happens.  That wedge was a bad idea, it took all the bend out of the last 8" of each limb.

[bamboo]

mike
my opinion is the the wedge you used was too thick and too long--chuck pointed out a modern hill only shows 2-3" of wedge showing below the nock--IMO you could adjust that dimension proportionaly to working limb length-i'd be comfortable with 4" wedge on a 68"-but also i like wood tip wedges of wood about 1/2 that thickness--it doesn't take much thickness change to stiffen a longbow tip--also any weight savings out at the tips is going improve cast and feel--

[monterey]

Very educational thread for me!

My analysis went straight to the .006 taper and concluded that the stack was probably caused by extreme whip tiller.  Wrong!!  The pics make it clear that is not the case!

I think the reduction of limb width is the way to go with an eye to maybe needing to take the reduction in much closer to fades.

[2treks]

He only has .002 taper in the limbs.

[vth0kie12]

if he were to use a power lam, wont that help push the bend further out towards the tips???

[monterey]

Chuck Yes, that's correct on the .002.  Getting confused!  

[Sant-Ravenhill]

Any updates with this bow?