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Apprentice:
--- Quote from: woodstick on January 03, 2010, 04:47:54 pm ---like el d said dont go past your desired draw wight. i have had some bows that i worked a couple inches on my tiller tree in one day. shut it down till the next day go 2 or 3 more shut it down. dont push it. i know you wana sling wood but when you rush thats when it goes bad. i still gota alot to learn on tiller but go slow.
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Yeah not going past top draw weight is something I read all the time.
Besides human error, is there any harm to doing much work in a short period of time?
El Destructo:
not that I have encountered...as long as you work the Wood every time you shave some off...to make sure that the wood has remembered that it is bending differently...otherwise you can end up Hinging one really fast....you have to work it between scrapings to work the Wood fibers...JMO
zenmonkeyman:
Isn't "Don't Go Past Your Draw Weight" too simple a rule? What if there's a hinge, and you keep pulling because "You Haven't Pulled Past Your Draw Weight"? I'd like to suggest amending this rule to read
"Never Pull Past Your Draw Weight Or Through A Hinge." 8)
Apprentice:
--- Quote from: zenmonkeyman on January 03, 2010, 06:08:44 pm ---Isn't "Don't Go Past Your Draw Weight" too simple a rule? What if there's a hinge, and you keep pulling because "You Haven't Pulled Past Your Draw Weight"? I'd like to suggest amending this rule to read
"Never Pull Past Your Draw Weight Or Through A Hinge." 8)
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Surley you've misread, your logic doesn't really make sense. Of course never through a hinge is also true so sure, why not.
zenmonkeyman:
Well, I agree I'm probably coming off a bit anal at the least, but I just watched a 6-part series on Youtube in which a guy spent hours and hours steambending an R/D (or maybe a D/R, I don't know which is which), glueing up a nice riser, backing it with fiberglass, and doing lots of things right, until tillering started. He pulled to his draw weight every time, and it was clear in part 5 he was throwing all his work out the window. Part 6 started with him trying to autopsy his bow, I shut it off I couldn't watch. I'm a nube, it could have happened to me (I've wrecked my bows for different reasons :P), so I'm just making a point for other nubes to maybe run across just in case. ;)
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