Dang!

[budgolf]

I understand now why so many people use band saws.  While tillering I noticed that I have created a hinge while shaping my handle with the rasp. It's still well above the draw weight and well. Slow the length I'm shooting for though. I think it will work out but it's gonna be close.

[Weylin]

I gotta say, I think bandsaws are a heck of a lot more dangerous to a bow than a rasp is. Not trying to judge you for making a hinge with a rasp, I've done it too but rasps tend to create problems a lot slower so at least you can catch them early most of the time. A bandsaw will ruin a bow in the blink of an eye.

[rossfactor]

We should all tiller only with a cabinet scraper.    Everybody would make like 1 bow a year, but dammit, it wouldn't be hingey!

Gabe

[George Tsoukalas]

Once I string the stave for the first time. I go to a scraper like tool. I don't want or own a bandsaw.
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[toomanyknots]

We should all tiller only with a cabinet scraper.    Everybody would make like 1 bow a year, but dammit, it wouldn't be hingey!

Gabe

Anymore, I do tiller completely with a scraper. And it is really faster that way too, when you figure how much sanding you have to do after the bow is tillered, using a scraper will leave alot less tool marks to sand out (if any really). I use my farriers rasp to get the initial bend working nicely regarding floor tillering, and on the longstring. Then file out all the rasp marks with a file, then check on the longstring again, then reduce to a finer file, then check on the longstring again, than use my scraper to remove all the finer file marks, than check on the longstring again, and if all is ok,.... THEN I string the bow,  . And after that, I will use a scraper to tiller out the bow. It seems to produce the least set of any way I have ever tillered a bow so far.

[sleek]

I agree, going the slowest method is the most sure way to produce a nice bow. On the flip side,  power tools will teach you a lesson faster than anything else. I use my bandsaw for splitting all my staves, and I follow the grain exactly. No problems. Next up, tillering with a chainsaw...

[Carson (CMB)]

I had a band saw.  Used it, then sold it. Now I prefer not having one at my disposal, because that is what it is for me, a stave disposal....Ok, just kidding....wish I had one for splices and thickness tapers on certain woods, and cutting billets out of low error-tolerant pieces of yew.  Other than that, I am glad I sold my bandsaw.

[Pappy]

Band saw to rough out,Rasp to get closer and scrapper to finish up the tiller.
   Pappy