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Keenan:
Ok here are the befor and after of the string alignment. Looks dead on now but I'll leave it sit till tomarrow and see if everything is still the same. Keenan
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Dano:
Nice job Keenan, you made it look like majic.
mnewcomb59:
Nice job Keenan. You did a better job than I could have done. Can I see another picture of that press? How long did you steam the handle?
Keenan:
Thanks Dano and Matt,
Matt I used dry heat and the long wood vice on the end of my work bench. I just lay a piece of leather in it to protect the wood against the center screw. I heated the handle areaslowly with a heat gun then I placed some rubber strips at the fades then some thicker rubber in the center opposite side of the handle.Tightened the vice untill just a hair past straight and let it cool for a few hours.
That extra wide wood vice works great for that and it does make it easier the trying to hold everything just right.
BTW your tiller job looks great !! Did you shoot it at all ? Keenan
mnewcomb59:
I shot it a little. It seemed that the arrows went right where i was looking. That was probably because the way the string was tracking made it pretty much center shot. ;) If you look, there is a little positive or negative tiller, depending on which limb is up. A few scrapes will bring it even if you want so you can flip the limbs. I might have marked which limb I was using as the top. I can't remember. I tried to leave the tips as blocky as possible so you can shape them how you want. I only rounded them minimally so I could string it easier.
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