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Offline Badger

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Re: Hand shock question? pictures added!
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2014, 02:31:35 am »
  Your tiller shape looks nice and even. I find bows tillered using a nice even bend over the limb have a lot of handshock, they tend to be more durable though. A couple of years ago I was giving away a bunch of bows so i gave them all that nice even tiller. They all had some handshock. Only remedy I found was to go back to my old stiff outer limbs, a little stiff out of the fades and elyptical in the bending area. I shoot feather light arrows down to 150 grains and have no handshock. Not critizing at all it just seems to be how it works for me.

Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Hand shock question? pictures added!
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2014, 08:47:25 am »
Thanks badger, these are some of my first few bows. I haven't attempted an elliptical tiller yet or even shot one. I plan on it with the next one I tiller though.  I will compare them when its done. Do you think the tips are thin enough on my vine maple bow?  Thanks, Patrick
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