Thanks for the thoughts on dealing with the hand shock.
It is not that the hand shock is severe, a bit of a push or bump is normal (for me at least) and OK, it’s the feel of vibrating is annoying.
The feel of vibration is there with 353 grain to 519 grain arrows.
I am shooting with two fingers, one over and one under the arrow. I started doing this when the third finger got arthritic. Now all my fingers are arthritic, but I have kept the two-finger style anyway.
The string is endless loop, 12 strands of B55. I have 2 strings, one with monofilament nylon serving at the arrow nock, and one with no serving. The serving did not alter the vibration, but does make the arrows clip on to the string.
I tried flipping the bow over, and the feel is the same. However, I am always holding with my hand pressure point dead center. This places the arrow pass (arrow centerline) at 0.60” above the bow center.
The idea of shifting the pressure point is something I have not tried and sounds promising.
Slow motion video sounds like a great idea but beyond my resources at the moment.
To see the relative bend in the two arms I duplicated the full draw photo and overlaid a reversed 50% transparent image on the original photo. The overlaid image is carefully adjusted in angle and position so that the tips exactly overlay. Since both halves of the combined image contain both bow limbs, only one side of the overlaid image is needed for evaluation. At least when I took the photo, the upper limb had about 1 bow limb thickness worth of more bend than the lower.
The bow is indeed quite long for the draw weight. I am trying to get both a 30” draw and a low strain light-ish weight bow, so I can hand it to people un-familiar with wood bows (read that compound & Barebow style glass/carbon recurve) to experience a “real” bow without worrying about over-drawing. This is why the vibration is annoying me, I want a smooth shooter to entice the over-complexified modern archer.
Sleek,
Good to hear that an old acquaintance is still makin bows & posting on line.
I am doing fine, and enjoying semi-retirement. I have had a bit more time for bows of late.
Dave