Man you wood bow dudes sweat limb bending way too much! Make the limbs the same profile, put it on the tiller tree and draw the sucker to full draw. No big deal. Measure from the fades to the belly on both limbs and then grind on the one that is not where you want it till you have your tiller. It's no harder than that. You may want to make a template to help you draw and cut out your bows. Here's what you do. Get Kenny to sell you a couple sticks of .050 clear glass. Draw your profile on it with straight edges just like you want it. Make a line at the string grooves, shelf, center, and fades. Draw a good line down the center from end to end. Use your straight edges and a stout hunting knife to score the profile lines into the glass over and over until you can break the glass on the scored lines. Hand sand the splinters off and you should have a perfect template. The second stick of glass is in case you scew up the first one. Now you can forget drawing center stripes and all that stuff. Just square the blank up best you can after glue up, eyeball the center of each tip and mark it, lay your template on the back of the blank, trace it with a sharpie and cut it out. I do most of the cutting with a very thin 6.5" blade on my tablesaw but you can grind or use a bandsaw if you want. This whole process is very quick and painless and it will give you a straight bow. File your initial string grooves shallow so you can adjust string tracking if necessary. You are making this way too hard. It's supposed to be fun and easy. Save all the hard work for wood bows. The bow looks great BTW!
Bonner
Topic: First R/D glass bow... build along (Finished) (Read 3466 times)
