So, a gentleman at my club was giving away a Bear Brown Bear compound. I took a look, and said to myself, what's the worst that can happen? So, it found it's way into the shop, where I dismantled it and started measuring and thinking. The limb angles were pretty severe,so I loctited the mounting bolts into the threaded inserts, and pulled them out. Heated up the inserts with the heat gun and pulled the bolts back out. Plugged the holes with dowels and epoxy. Then made a crude fixture to hold it while I used my buddy's mill to change the pads to 12*, and re-drill and tap the holes for the inserts. I also put 1/4" dowel holes in to help with location, as well as reusing the plastic limb pockets that were original equipment. Stripped the original finish, stained, and sprayed VHT on it. Riser ready. Next I did a couple of trial limb glueups. I had a shape I thought would work, flat for 3 3/4", then reflexing about 4 3/4" over the next 24" or so, which puts the tips just ahead of the riser. My first set of limbs were too stout, to say the least. I tried to narrow them, to no good end. Broke 'em. Next was a better guess as to stack, but the elm I used on the back started cracking out. Narrowed them, too, trying to outrun the crack, but another disappointment. Third times' the charm? Got it exercised out to full draw, but just a hair heavier than I'd like, 55#@28", about 66" L. Anyways, for those who have been kind enough to stick with me here, what do you think of the tiller? (I'll post a full draw pic in the near future, too.) Thanks! Roger
Pictures are as follows, riser plugged before milling, riser after milling and refinishing, test limbs, and tiller of final (I hope) limbs.
Topic: Warf longbow (Read 1007 times)
