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[silent sniper]

My bamboo/osage American style longbow for the trade is coming along pretty well. I am doing the final tiller tweaks before I go forth with finishing the bow. I may soften up the outer third of the bottom limb just a tad, but otherwise it is just about what I am looking for. These asymmetrical bows always throw me for a loop when it comes to the full draw profile.
Cheers,
Taylor

[loefflerchuck]

That bow looks perfect Taylor!

[loefflerchuck]

Deerhunter, I may be a little late for this post, but if the bow still holds reflex, it sounds like your tiller job is very good. You have not strained the wood to the point of breaking it down, thus the bend is fine.

[Mafort]

Well my plan a came in light by 5lbs. It’s hickory backed Osage. I’m wondering if I can pike it to get some more draw weight. It is 70” long

[Deerhunter21]

Deerhunter, I may be a little late for this post, but if the bow still holds reflex, it sounds like your tiller job is very good. You have not strained the wood to the point of breaking it down, thus the bend is fine.

not too late still working up the patience and courage lol, to finish working... sounds good, still think it needs so very, very fine tillering. i want to be able to send my best work out.

[Deerhunter21]

If you look at this you can see where most of the set is coming where you told me to hear treat it. Well I heat treated it and now in letting it rest and get moisture back.

[M2A]

Went back over the last few pages, seeing some nice work fellas.

Been working on 2, a locust and an osage. 6 inches to go on the osage but only 2" left to go to F/D on the locust. Wanted to get a few pics up tonight drawn in hand but thats gonna have to wait a few days.

I been using one of those cheap carabiner clips on my tillering string to make fast adjustments on string lenght. I used this same clip one the last couple bows I made. Almost came back to bit me today. Was check the feel of the draw in hand on the locust piece much of the day as I was getting close on the tillering. The cheap metal ended up not being able to take the stress and began to bend. Lucky for me I caught it just in time. Guess i'll be out to the hardware store this week to get a few quick links that I can screw closed and that will take the stress. Figured I'd share a pic to maybe save someone from making that type of mistake. Will only be using these clips as hat hangers from now on
IMG_3802 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
               

[sleek]

If you look at this you can see where most of the set is coming where you told me to hear treat it. Well I heat treated it and now in letting it rest and get moisture back.

On the pic I drew for you?

[Deerhunter21]

If you look at this you can see where most of the set is coming where you told me to hear treat it. Well I heat treated it and now in letting it rest and get moisture back.

On the pic I drew for you?

yeah. you said to heat treat a little out of the fades and im realizing that that is where the set in the bow is coming from so yeah, it was bending too much where you told me to heat treat.

[Deerhunter21]

argh!! it seems to be bending even more in the fades!!!! its taken a lot more set after the heat treat!! 

[Deerhunter21]

anyone have any idea why?? ill get pictures soon.

[silent sniper]

I have tried heat treating weak areas to stiffen them back up. Sometimes it helps, but I had one particular bow that simply could not handle the weight I wanted no matter how much heat treating. The bow ended up being a 30# bow that  still took 3” of set. The wood was simply not good enough to begin with. This is only speaking from my experience, I can’t speak for yours. Your tiller didn’t look too bad before, I’m not sure what’s up unless the wood has given up and collapsing.

[Deerhunter21]

you know what... im not gonna get pictures right now.... im gonna give it a couple days more to rehydrate. i heat treated it on saturday and only gave it a day.... hopefully thats it and i didnt weaken the heat treated area too much.

[sleek]

Sorry man, but rehydration isn't the problem. I have never experienced what you are describing, and it really doesn't make any sense to me. Id need to see side profile strung, unstrung, and full draw to have any chance of adding anything useful.

[Deerhunter21]

  ok ill get some pics in a hour.... hopefully its just my eyes from looking at a screen all day from online school