Just a post on my first bow.
A 66" red oak board bow that pulls 24# at 27". Backed with Burlap.
Now, I did not intend on making this bow pull 24# - I was actually hoping for 35, but I screwed up in 2 places. If you look at my other posts, you'll notice I didn't know how to raise the brace height, so I assumed that you just keep taking wood off. Because of this, I just kept rasping my bow down, making it weaker. The other problem relates to the tillering tree. If you look at the last picture, you'll notice that the tillering tree I made used a pulley to pull the bowstring. Now that pulley was really cheap I guess, cause it did not roll smoothly. It somehow screwed up the reading on the scale because when I went to measure the poundage WITH the pulley, it read 32#, but without the pulley it read 24# (If that makes any sense).
Any way, I also wanted to ask you guys for advice and constructive criticism. Including my shooting form
My friend and I are going to be making bows some time in the next week, and I definitely want some improvement.
Thanks so much!
Jacob