Tiller check please

[Don]

I know I was going for a bendy handle but after the last one BLEW UP I needed a confidence builder.
Hickory backed w/linen [spliter lifted at end of tiller so the linen].
70" TtT
68" NtN
1 1/4" widest part of limb
7/8" wide handle
50#@28"



First picture, top limb looks funny but it could the house siding.
Thanks    Don

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

looks good to me. what kinda set has it taken? can we see an unbraced side profile?

Phil

[bowmo]

Certainly looks good to me... Almost looks like it might be better flipped around so your top limb would be the bottom...but good looking none the less. Nice work...

dan

[DanaM]

Looks pretty darn good Don, hows it shoot? any hand shock?

[cracker]

What they said. Looks like a meat maker to me.R.C.

[Pat B]

This bow sure should have built a little confidence for you. Nice tiller.      Pat

[George Tsoukalas]

Yes, indeed. Very nicely done. Jawge

[Don]

Thanks Guys.
It took about 2 1/2" of set on the top limb and 2" on the bottom. A bit more then I would have liked.
The lower limb is slightly heavier then the top, that's why I left it as the bottom limb.
I thick the stronger of the two goes on the bottom for 3 fingers under. Correct?
There is very little hand shock. There is just a very little bit.
It shoot fairly well, but the cast I think could be better.
I first mist my target weight  by about 6# so i had to cut off 1" of each tip and brought it back to 50#.
Well I guess I need to start another.

Don

[Dano]

I think 1 1/4" is just to narrow for hickory, too much stress on the limbs and loss of cast. My next hickory will probably be a wide piramid, maybe 2" wide. Just my thoughts.

[Don]

Hi Dano.
This was the left over peace after riping down a board.
My other peaces are 1 3/4" wide, Maybe I should have gone 2" but to late now.
Don

[Dano]

I hear ya Don, a guys gotta do what a guys gotta do.

[bowmo]

I just dont know dano. I use to have the same mindset a few years back, but these days I feel like wide bows are just no good aside for a handfull of more uncommon designs. To me it seems that just as if you make a recurve too thin you will pull it out, if you make you limbs over a inch and a half the limbs get so thin they too kind of pull out in a way. This is far more true with bows that have been reflexed but I believe it to be true overall. I make all my bows between and inch to an inch and a quarter. I would rather make a bow a bit longer than a wider.

Make sense?

dan

[Don]

Here ya go Phil.
Remeasured the set not quite as much as I thought.
Lower 1 3/4"------upper 2 1/4"


Don

[Pappy]

Looks good to me,that set ant bad at all for Hickory.I like mine 1 5/8 to 1 3/4 also on Hickory
if possible,but you have to go with what you have.
   Pappy

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

like was said, 1 1/4 is a bit narrow for hickory, but do what you can with what youve got! the set is nice and even so i wouldnt  be too upset with it. it deffinately looks good to me. im with Pappy on the width, 1 5/8 to 1 3/4. 2" wide if shorter than 64".

Phil