Ok, well I have had this one up before for a tiller check and now I've got a bit of a problem. Genius that I am I tried to string it by myself real quick by pushing in the center and bracing the end against the floor while drawing the other back with my hand...problem is that I was probably about 10 inches above center putting all the strain on the midlimb and it popped and pulled up a large splinter in the back. I let it sit for a long time figuring it was in the scrap pile or at best might get a take down from it and then decided to see what I could do to repair it. So I took some epoxy, filled in the splinter area and wrapped it up tight with twine. After it dried I scraped off the excess glue and twine scraps. Then I took some small diameter hemp twine, wrapped it tight around the spot and then brushed on some poly to keep it in place. Decided I did not like the look of just the one side so I did the other side to match. Then I decided to use some larger diameter twine to fill in the area in between and sealed both of those with some more poly. Let it dry some and gave it a couple shots and it seams to be holding together, for now at least. Curious of a couple things at this point; How long do you all thing this will hold and also I am still not satisfied with the tiller, the outer limbs feel entirely too stiff to me and I think I need to remove a lot of mass because she kicks like a mule right now when she shoots. The nocks are a couple inches inside the outer limb tips and I will probably pike the bow to there or shorter to keep the weight high. As she is, pulling just over 100# at 32 inches. I'll most likely add some leather for the handle over the center twine wrap when I am done because I just do not care for the feeling of polyurethaned twine, especially when it is still a little damp, lol. Thanks for looking all.
Kip
P.S. Oh yeah, almost forgot, the bow is hackberry, heat treated belly about 1 3/8 inch center out to 5/8 inch tips 77 inches tip to tip 72 3/4 inch NTN...think thats all for now