Twist

[stuckinthemud]

This character yew bow has a bit of twist left in it, hold the handle flat, the limbs twist about the same amount.  As its yew, taking  the twist out shouldn't be too difficult. Question is, should I?  Its taken many, many, many heat treatments to get the bow straight side to side and get rid of most of the deflex.There's maybe 5mm deflex, instead of the couple of inches I started with and all the nearly 2 inches of side to side is gone.  The back is high crowned with a couple of raised knots so strapping it down isn't that easy and I am worried another heat treatment will relax out some of the corrections I've put into it.  If I don't take out the twist, how do I lay out the tip overlays?

[Pat B]

Wait til you brace it and see how it looks.

[Hamish]

+1 What Pat said.

If you  put overlays on, I would build up the low side, so it sits evenly. Then cut nocks like it was straight stave, with regular overlays.