This is a bow that I made a few years ago and was really pleased with at the time. It was fast but a little shocky. I think that was mainly down to the overly large and thick recurves. Anyway I was looking at it and thinking about some little tricks i've learnt since making it and thought reckon I could get something else out of it performance-wise.
So off came the sinew, heat treated it to get it reflexed before sinewing and to give a little extra weight to re-tiller it , trapped the back and reduced the recurves quite a bit, it's now 3/8ths at the nocks themselves. I also adjusted the width taper somewhat.
I've just got the first couple of sinew layers done and have kept it thin on the limb edges with most going down the centre of the limb to try and get it strained a bit more than it if was left flatish as before.
