Good tiller doesn't always look good

[Roy]

I always tell Pearl Drums his bows suck...

[adb]

Me too... 

[PEARL DRUMS]

Jealousy is VERY ugly on both of you, you should try another outfit....

[Buckeye Guy]

Hey Pearly your hair looks nice today !!!!!!

As far as tiller goes  beauty is in the eye of the beholder !

[Roy]

Yup Pearly is a sweetheart:)

[koan]

Heres somethin that will really blow your skirt up.... A stave, say naturally reflexed 3" on one end and naturally deflexed on the other....you put it on your form and reflex with any heat source to make the limbs even out...now consider that the limb that was deflexed, is now reflexed.... That limb is already under more stress(or atleast structually inferior) to the naturally reflexed limb... The belly wood has been stretched and the back has been compressed. The naturally reflexed limb is still in close to its natural state...this makes my head hurt abit, lol.... I guess if i had a point to make it would be that once we have changed the natural shape of the wood were assuming alot more than actually knowing what a good tiller looks like and like what has been said already, depends alot on "feel".... Brian

[blackhawk]

Boy that Roy guy sure likes to make a mess of things around here...this is what happens when Roy makes bows...he makes a mess of things....or I think he done pissed himself thru his pants and onto his work bench after pearly sent him a pic of his guns 



I apologize for the further derailment of this thread 

[Roy]

If you would have helped instead of grabbing your camera, there wouldn't have been a mess:)

[Dances with squirrels]

Whudya do Roy, bake one of yer catfish in yer bow oven?

[Roy]

Nope, wuz cleaning one of my rasps in vinegar, and the damn coors light kicked the jug over and blackybird was no help:)

[Jim Davis]

Thanks for all the cogitation about tillering. You guys (haven't lived in KY long enough to be comfortable saying y'all) have brought up lots of puzzles that have tired out my brain a few times--like the one-limb-reflexed while the other is naturally deflexed.

And, wow, some  of youse (I never lived in Joisie, but I'll use youse to try to be funny) even  apologized for drifting off topic and I never even complained. What rank civility!



Jim

[BrokenArrow]

To the best of your knowledge did the native Indians tiller their bows using tillering sticks?
My guess is one guy braced it and another guy marked where to remove the wood from.
We could do that here but the tillering process would take a long time and it would not really be an individual effort unless someone wanted it to be.

Whenever someone comments on a bow it is I hope done based on the premise that we are all in this together, I hope....
I know some guys do this for a living and maybe are more experienced and more critical but to me the less clinical and standardized the process the better.
I like the real wood bows and only hand tools (no primitive tools yet). But I accept that to each their own, just like personalities

[Marc St Louis]

To the best of your knowledge did the native Indians tiller their bows using tillering sticks?
My guess is one guy braced it and another guy marked where to remove the wood from.
We could do that here but the tillering process would take a long time and it would not really be an individual effort unless someone wanted it to be.

Whenever someone comments on a bow it is I hope done based on the premise that we are all in this together, I hope....
I know some guys do this for a living and maybe are more experienced and more critical but to me the less clinical and standardized the process the better.
I like the real wood bows and only hand tools (no primitive tools yet). But I accept that to each their own, just like personalities

When experienced you can tiller a D bow simply by the braced shape

[Zradix]

I think there's some good info here...somewhere...

[bradsmith2010]

d bows are great like that