Thanks fellas....It had some natural reflex to it which I lost during tillering.A little over an inch in the limbs.Hoping it would keep more of it since it was a 3 year old stave.Thought it might be seasoned enough to maybe make a diff.It only kept the flipped tips for set back.Some of that seemed to pull out too.I had to heat and reheat those tips to align them properly because of the propellers left in the limbs.They say wood will weaken a bit to too much heat.Might be true.The wiggle in the top limb only gave an 1.5" width to stay on the crown of the stave yet.I wanted more.I bet that would of made a difference too.It's either that or to make them a bit longer to get more reflex to stay.Did'nt heat treat this one any just tweaked it here and there balancing the limbs.Still left the propellers in the limbs which actually seem to come out somewhat as I'm shooting it in.
I'm kinda stuck building the same type bows,but it's the kind I like to shoot.This one can look a little wonky because of the propellers but it's in tiller I think.Guess I'm ready to try that cedar now in a bit.That ones a bit different than my usual.Still old osage is hard to beat.I've had bows lately of cherry and black locust chrysall on me after many hundreds of arrows but never ever osage,but the cherry and BL were really reflexed though.Even a yew tip snap for no reason I can figure.Not osage....lol.
