Author Topic: Limb Twist Improvements minimal... next step?  (Read 804 times)

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Re: Limb Twist Improvements minimal... next step?
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2016, 09:10:00 PM »
It is starting to look better. Especially the top limb. Still a little twist but the off centerline curve of the tip is almost gone. I'll keep alternating between heat bending and faceting the strong side.

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Re: Limb Twist Improvements minimal... next step?
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2016, 05:54:00 AM »
I drew that backwards, you want to take it off the belly, just lower your facets. But trapping would help also.

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Re: Limb Twist Improvements minimal... next step?
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2016, 08:25:00 PM »
Boy I tell you, this bow is all sorts of goofy. After a couple days of sitting unstrung in the garage the twist started coming back. No big deal, I began working on it again... to the point where the "strong" edge is measurably thinner than the weak one but the twist is still present. I've also got it to the point on the tree where the top limb is acting weaker, yet the bow has a 1/16" negative tiller. Go figure. In about at the point of calling it "close enough" and just shooting it again.

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Re: Limb Twist Improvements minimal... next step?
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2016, 08:04:00 AM »
Sounds like you got a piece of wood that has an inherent twist. Just shoot it and start another..

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