Building a Tri Lam

[fujimo]

i would send you a camera, but i lost your address!   :D

[Roy from Pa]

I lost it too...  

[wood carver 2]

I could send you one, if you don't mind the smell of socks.
           
Dave.

[monterey]

Roy, what glue do you use on these?

[fujimo]

Ther I go...spat OJ all over my daughters I pad  

[Roy from Pa]

Glue is unibond800. LOL woody and Fuji.

[Roy from Pa]

Well the camera was not in the sock drawer. It wuz in the underwear drawer. No wonder I couldn't find it, I don't wear undies..         LOL

I have this bow tillered to 20 inches on a short/long string. I don't use those super long tillering strings. Cause they LIE. I cut in the string grooves and start out with a string that just fits into the string grooves while the bow is at rest. The longer the string you start out with, like say one of those so called tillering strings that hang down two feet below the belly of the bow, the less stress that is applied to the outer 1/3 of the limbs. So they do not yield a true indication of how the limbs will react with a shorter string. So I start out with a string that just reaches the string grooves. Once the limb tips are bending to about 6 inches, I go to a shorter string and a 3 inch brace height and start tillering all over again, drawing the bow to about 10 inches down the tree to start. Once the limb tips are bending to about 9 inches, " and the limbs are looking fine", I string the bow to a 6" brace height and tiller it out to my intended draw length. At the 6" brace height, I start pulling the bow to 10" about 30 times, then after the 30 times, I move on down ONE inch at a time for another 30 times. It's a long slow process, thus the Coors Light..         I tiller for equal limb timing. On the tree, you can see two vertical black lines. The line on the right is for split finger shooters and the line on the left is for three under shooters. I want my pull rope to travel exactly down which ever line I am tillering for. If it does that, that means the limbs are bending in sync! Which yields a sweet shooting bow.

Bow at rest here.

     

Pulled to 20 inches here, but with the longer string on the bow. So that 20 inch pull there does not mean that is how it will be pulled once the real string is on it. Ya rookies dig that? LOL

     

And the video.

This bow is asymmetrical, the bottom limb is 1 1/8 inches shorter than the top limb, measured from the center of the 4" handle.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51wHtACWMw&feature=youtu.be

[Buemaker]

Looking good Roy and very informative when seeing the limbs bend in the video. Bue--.

[Robyn Hode]

Truly awesome Roy. Thank you for the video.

[AkDan]

Nice video !


I think I'm sea sick lol

[canopyboy]

I felt like I was at sea again as well. We need to all look in our closets and see if we can't come up with a tripod for that man.

[Zradix]

looking good

[Roy from Pa]

You two girls have been sick for a long time..  

[fujimo]

very cool- gotta say fella- i really like your build alongs. very informative!
i dont know what they are talking about Roy!

[Roy from Pa]

Ah thanks Wayne, and they are just a couple sissy pants..  

[David Flanrey]

Bow looks great so far Roy.  The bend looks perfect to me.  I'm gonna have to try one of these sometime.

[AkDan]

Hehe!

[cunruhshoot]

Roy makes it look easy...Now that I have tried twice I am thinking it is not so easy.

[canopyboy]

Wait, which landlubber said that being at sea had anything to do with being sick?

I showed it to an officemate. He mentioned something about the POV videos he watches. No idea what he means, but maybe Roy does?
 

[Zradix]

:p