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mullet:
  I floor tiller them also.I've never used oak for a bow. With 2" limbs like Jaime said I wouldn't use alot either.I would concentrate it down the center and then thinner towards the edge.I made a 40" bow ,50#,@ 28" out of mulberry.It had 1 1/2" limbs at the handle and tapered to the points.I put 3 layers of leg tendons on.I let everybody and anybody pull it.I think it was indestructable.But it was more sinew than wood.

JamesCarpenter:
Thanks for all the replies. I took your advise and spent many hours today pounding and cleaning sinew.

I was getting worried because at mid limb the thickness is only around .25 inch. I'm beginning to think it'll be a sinew bow with a red oak belly. ;D

Pappy:
That's the problem,that wide and that short.I make some hickory bows 60 in long and 2 in. to mid limb then tapper to the tips and they get pretty thin to make a bow in the low 50's and that
is without sinew.I never measure the thickness just work it out while tillering but I know they get thin.
  Pappy

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