Lumpy Yew (Full Draw Page 1)

[Badly Bent]

That looks real nice Keenan. I like the way you and some of the others on here can handle the wavy, knarly pieces of wood and come out with a beautiful, functional bow. I'm watching and hopefully learning cause I have some staves like that begging to become bows
one day.
Greg

[Del the cat]

Yeah, nice bit of Yew. Gotta love the swoops.
Del

[missilemaster]

Roller coaster for sure What is your method of  tillering such limbs? I usually use my thumb and index finger and run it down the limb feeling for a constant limb taper.  I know this is going to be a nice one!

                                                    -Cody

[Del the cat]

... I usually use my thumb and index finger and run it down the limb feeling for a constant limb taper

Amen to that... all the measurements with vernier calipers can't beat your finger and thumb. (Cant pick your nose with verniers either )
Del

[Keenan]

Roller coaster for sure What is your method of  tillering such limbs? I usually use my thumb and index finger and run it down the limb feeling for a constant limb taper.  I know this is going to be a nice one!

                                                    -Cody

Yep that is the best method. 
 Yep Del them verniers can really hurt up the nose,

Here is a little clip working this bow!

http://youtu.be/l4GDFEIF9tQ

[Will H]

Great video sir! Thank you for sharing that That stave is turning out real nice!

[Roy]

Nice flick ole boy...

[seabass]

good video Keenan.i was out on my stavemaster today chasing a ring on a osage stave.i am still loving the stavemaster.it really shines on the fine detail sanding.it's nice to be able to hold the wood in any position.being short or vertically challenged,other shave horses are just to long and i can't get enough pressure to hold the stave.i just have to lay one foot on the pedal of the stavemaster and the wood is held firmly.it helps my back out a bunch.thanks brother.

[Jesse]

Looks great Keenan.

[Shaun]

Here in the midwest out snake bows go back and forth, NOT up and down. You left coasters are just strange.

I like the image of hauling out Christmas trees that look like yew staves with a tuft of branches at the end.

[missilemaster]

Great video Keenan. Thats pretty much how I work character staves. Thats going to be a very nice bow I can tell now!!

[Weylin]

Looking good, Keenan. Loved your plug for the stavemaster there.  It's the truth though. I was just helping a new bowyer today on his first bow and it is a wild and crazy yew stave. He had it clamped down to the table for a bit to do some rasping and sure enough he crushed a little dent into one of the protruding lumps. I put him back on the stavemaster after that.

[Keenan]

Thanks guys, didn't want to make a commercial but did feel it necessary to point out that as soft as yew is you need to be a little more cautious with the back and sides and how you clamp or hold when scraping

[Weylin]

I was just teasing you a little.  I didn't think you were making a commercial. The stave master is really good for that issue, and many others. My only complaint with my stavemaster is that sometimes I fall asleep in it while I'm deciding what to do next on my bow.

[blackhawk]

All hail king Keenan upon his yew throne  .....Long live the king 

Nice teaser..and I'm sure it helps some folks as well,and that's applicable to all woods and bows...when someone shows me a bow the first thing I do is run my greasy fingers across it checking for tiller by guaging its thickness and side to side thickness...and most times you can tell if its tillered right by that test alone.