Thanks guys!! Appreciate the encouragement. unfortunately i've only put a couple of arrows through just to see what she'd do, but that was at about 16 inches draw. now i've got her out to 26 inches, came in at 15#, which is the neighborhood i was hunt'n fer. Seems like these thinner bows are harder to tiller than the heavier ones!! the only downer is that hinge that began to develop. I was able to work around it and still get a nice draw curve, but the unbraced profile is a little screwy
Oh well, guess if it was fer looking perty unstrung, i wouldn't tiller it to begin with
Been a real good learning experience and y'alls input has been very helpful. If these stinkin tornadoes will go on round us, maybe i can take my son out tomorrow to take her for a spin. It's the second bow i've made for him, hope he likes it! i'll put another pic up when i've got her all decked out with handle wrap and finish
RPS: the scale thing was kind of serendipitous. I didn't like the idea of the hook going on the string, and it did seem like it'd be a little unnatural too. I found a couple of links with the screw closure that worked nicely for hooks and could hold a lotta weight, so i modified the getup and this is what i got. Looking back, it does seem to help. It's also pushing me in the direction of Dean Torge's philosophy of the stiffer limb being the upper rather than the lower. Fits with my physics background as well (that's these schools have been letting me teach for the past 10 years or so
). Course, i'm probly starting an argument now
cause i know there's lots of opinions round here bout that from men who've been doing this a lot longer than me. All i know is what i see working in my garage and in my hands
