Author Topic: Osage Selfbow help needed  (Read 848 times)

Offline Carson81

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Re: Osage Selfbow help needed
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2015, 11:42:00 AM »
This can also happen if you have recurved tips or lots of reflex combined with a low brace height and a stretchy Dacron tillering string. If that is the case. Try raising the brace height and see if that helps.

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Re: Osage Selfbow help needed
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2015, 02:23:00 PM »
Did you floor tiller it to get the limbs bending? Do you have it strung or are you using a tillering string with the leather cups? A video would be helpful, Robyn.

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Re: Osage Selfbow help needed
« Reply #22 on: November 16, 2015, 01:47:00 PM »
The bow was floor tillered. I double checked for limb twist - one side of a limb may have been thicker than the other but I think shorting my tillering string (Dacron) has fixed the problem for now. (The bowyers knot was slipping). Thanks for the suggestions.

This bow has a couple of knots in both limbs  kinda looks like a roller coaster but not that extreme. It has been giving me some fits so I have been taking it real slow.

When tillering limbs with knots do you leave the limb thick (back to belly) at the knot creating a stiff spot or maintain an even taper from fade to limb tip?

Roy - I wish I could make a video but I do not have a phone or a camera with that feature.
 
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