Dangerous tillering stick(Yes, a proper tillering tree is in the making. This dangerous contraption I have right now is rather detrimental to the whole effort. And has the potential cause grave injuries.
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So, I have a yew bow in the making(it was a rather warped thing before I heat treated some semblance of tip - handle alignment into it) and it just so happened that one limb has and inch or so of reflex while the other limb had slightly more deflex.
I again tortured the thing a bit and removed most of that deflex but when drawing the thing it sort of comes back in a non-permanent fashion. By that I mean that the limb that had deflex seems to want to bend more despite having more wood left. On the other side, of course, the reflex is causing the limb to look somewhat stiff. I've been slowly removing wood from the "stiff" portion of the limb, but now it appears to be getting quite thin and I don't feel like making it bend excessively to follow a pre-determined curve.
Should I compromise and leave the reflexed part of the limb stiffer? .
Now to the numerous other defects I can see.
1) Right limb is stiff near the tip around the small knot. That's the limb with reflex
2) Right limb is very stiff around that large knot
3) A slight hinge can be seen a few inches from the handle on the right limb
4) Left limb is VERY stiff near the middle where there is a very large knot further from the grip and a smaller one more towards the center. Between these two knots is the stiffest part
5) The part especially near the tip seems a bit massive (from slightly before the knot to the end of it the limb had quite a bit of deflex I heat gunned out)
These are my observations. What do you thing?
