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Offline GB

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Working on an elm and erc longbow
« on: November 09, 2014, 03:19:37 am »
I'm doing the final tillering on my first ERC bow.  I found a nice board that I was able to get a mostly heartwood, knot free slat from and backed it with 1/8" thick edge grained red elm.  It's 68" long, 1 5/8" at the fades and 45#@ my 27" draw.  I glued in 3" of reflex and it's holding 2 1/4" of it after putting 50 arrows thru it.  Thinking that I might have the very outer limbs a little too stiff yet.  Any body else seeing that?
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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2014, 07:56:01 am »
That looks very good GB.
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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2014, 10:17:17 am »
looks great to me,nice job!
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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2014, 11:09:49 am »
Nice job man.  The unbraced profile looks real nice.
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Offline GB

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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2014, 02:48:37 pm »
Thanks for the encouraging words, guys.  Guess I'll do the final sanding and shoot it a little more.  Getting antsy to finish it now. :)
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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2014, 02:54:40 pm »
Since you have reached your draw length, further tillering will only reduce the draw weight and make a longer draw possible-neither of which would help you.

If you needed to go  to 28", the outer limbs could bend more, but, as I said...

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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2014, 07:08:51 pm »
It's the lower limb that could bend a bit more in the outer limb but I agree with Jim, best to just leave it
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Offline GB

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Re: Working on an elm and erc longbow
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2014, 02:29:04 am »
Thanks for the advice Jim and Marc.  I'm happy with the way it shoots so I guess I'll just leave it as is.  I really liked the backed ERC bow that you made for the article in PA magazine awhile back, Marc.  In fact, that's what prompted me to give ERC a try.
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