Author Topic: Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update full draw)  (Read 6903 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline spyder1958

  • Member
  • Posts: 239
  • Retire Air Force, love all outdoors, 7 grandkids
Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update full draw)
« on: January 09, 2013, 01:52:27 am »
hey gang, need some eyes and input please. 62ttt 50lb@25 Ipe/boo purple heart power lam. very fast and a super hard hitter
Should the outer 1/3 bend more?, they are getting thin.
the left is a tad stiffer at the fade than the right. Its just ruff out still needs finish sanding, and handle shaped, then finish applied.
Thanks, Graylan


« Last Edit: January 09, 2013, 10:10:45 pm by spyder1958 »

Offline ionicmuffin

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,787
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 01:57:46 am »
to me it looks like the outer half the limb on each side could bend a smidgen more but i would wait until a few more chime in before taking my advice and or discarding it.
Amo innectis arcus- I love crafting bows (latin)

Offline PaleoNinja

  • Member
  • Posts: 41
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2013, 02:07:04 am »
can we see the front profile? I think that would be helpful

Offline steve b.

  • Member
  • Posts: 999
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2013, 02:13:54 am »
Yes the left is stiffer than the right and both are flat from midlimb out, alittle.  Personally, at this point in the tiller, I would forego the tree and pull by hand from the arrow nock point.  Gonna be a great bow.

Offline soy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,897
  • pm106221
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2013, 02:36:09 am »
I have not finished mine yet But I've been told the outer 3rd to be a little stiff on the boo/ipecombo for better performance.... but that's just what I've been told.....i I think it looks alright
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline bubby

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,054
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2013, 06:36:29 am »
I think the right limb is ok, the left needs more bend from the vert line marked 12 out, take a 5" long board and run it on the belly and check for gaps, Bub
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
The few the proud the 27🏹

Offline Del the cat

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,300
    • Derek Hutchison Native Wood Self Bows
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2013, 06:41:53 am »
I'd say left is stiff and it's outer 2/3 isn't flexing much.
Unbraced pic would help (I'm assuming it's not an RD)
Could do final tillering on width esp' near tips.
I agree with SteveB, always pull from arrow nock point and support where hand will support bow.
Del
Just noticed, if you look at your own curves draw on the backboard, it shows the left is stiff on last 1/3
« Last Edit: January 09, 2013, 06:46:33 am by Del the cat »
Health warning, these posts may contain traces of nut.

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2013, 11:35:32 am »
You guys are nit pickin'!! That tiller looks great. Finish it up, and start shooting it. Stiff tips will make it fast.

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2013, 11:48:08 am »
You guys are nit pickin'!! That tiller looks great. Finish it up, and start shooting it.

Yup, I wish mine looked that good.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline spyder1958

  • Member
  • Posts: 239
  • Retire Air Force, love all outdoors, 7 grandkids
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2013, 12:25:22 pm »
Thanks Muffin,
Steve B, Maybe I can get the wife to take some full draw shots tonight and post those before removing more wood, if its not to dark.
Thanks Soy, it feels good. good luck on yours.

Bub, I forgot to ck with a flat block, newbee mistake.  :embarrassed:
I have not finished the handle yet as I was waiting to decide on which was the bottom limb.

After The limbs look close to being even and the draw weight was close, I picked the Rt limb as top and shot it about 25 times, Bow feels stronger than 50lb and brace is at 5" with a very tight string. Bow has the same feel all through the draw. even with the handle full width and guessing at nock point, it  shot very well at 30yds. I shot split finger.

Paleo & catman, I'll load some photos of the front and unstrung horz for you. I keep it braced all last nite and it look good this morning.
Thanks, Pearly and adb, A newbee needs more nick pickin, I did ask for it.  :laugh:
Heres a few photos until I can get more. Did I say its fast  ;D
Also, thats 4 different length's and weight arrows. seems to shoot all ok.




Offline spyder1958

  • Member
  • Posts: 239
  • Retire Air Force, love all outdoors, 7 grandkids
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update for del and paleo)
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2013, 03:20:36 pm »
Here you go del and paleo






Offline bubby

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,054
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2013, 04:18:13 pm »
You guys are nit pickin'!! That tiller looks great. Finish it up, and start shooting it. Stiff tips will make it fast.

maybe I'm nit pickin', that's just what I see I'd have just taken about 5 scrapes on the rt limb,, and I leave my tips a little stiff as well, my spydie sense tells me it's a shooter either way Bub
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
The few the proud the 27🏹

Offline RyanY

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,997
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update for Del & Paleo
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2013, 04:29:05 pm »
adb, stiff tips don't make every bow fast.

spyder1958, looks to me like you're already really close to getting it finished up so maybe save this criticism for the next bow. With the front view profile you have the bow should be very elliptically tillered. As it is now its doing more bending in the inner limbs than the outer which is the complete opposite direction of where you'd want to go with it.

Offline Stefan

  • Member
  • Posts: 167
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update for Del & Paleo
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2013, 05:57:42 pm »
Tiller is looking good. I would scrape the outer limb some more.  On your next bow i would choose to taper the front profile of the bow earlier than those tips wont  get that  thin. (thickness) imho it  would also look better.

Stefan
Iron rusts from disuse, water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo

Offline bubby

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,054
Re: Ipe/boo tiller ck please (update for Del & Paleo
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2013, 06:46:46 pm »
boo/epe shure makes a good shooting hard hitting bow don't it, Bub
failure is an option, everyone fails, it's how you handle it that matters.
The few the proud the 27🏹