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Offline Josh

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tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« on: February 16, 2010, 06:21:15 pm »
I am giving this bow to my sinew supplier (he gave me a BUNCH of deer legs this year  ;) )  I told him I was gonna make him a bow this year for saving me all the legs...  I want the bow to be perfect so it won't break on him... He's a newbie to the wooden bow....  The bow is 58 lbs at 29" right now and I know I need to get the tips bending a little more do you see anything else that needs to happen to it? It is red oak board, 1.75 inches wide at the fades for around 4 or 5 inches then tapering to 3/8" nocks...   I am gonna adjust the tips a little more tonight and then spend the rest of the week shooting the crap out of it to make sure it is gonna be ok. Then I am gonna stain it, seal it up, make some arrows and a bow stringer and then give it to him..  All opinions needed/welcomed...   Thanks for looking! 
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 06:30:31 pm »
Josh that is looking excellent, I'd say your there as long as you put a fair amount of rounds through it to make sure nothing changes, ;) Nice bow
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 06:34:29 pm »
Tiller is great. Handle transition to limb looks very abrupt but photo is fuzzy. Jawge
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2010, 06:39:07 pm »
thanks Keenan!
 thanks Jawge... I need to finish shaping the fades they are still a little choppy.  also I think i took the pic kinda quartering away from the camera a little too now that I look closer at it.   ;)
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2010, 06:46:48 pm »
Josh...work them Fade Transitions in some....and the make sure that everything is all nice and Rounded...no hard edges at all....and I'll bet it will be just fine
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2010, 07:45:07 pm »
Tiller looks good to me - I don't think you need to do anything to the tips.
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2010, 07:50:33 pm »
top limb might need a fraction taken off mid-limb, if you want to be real picky. But I'm no expert  :P Really though, if you didn't do anything else to it, the tiller would still be fantastic.
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2010, 09:30:16 pm »
thanks Mike, Gordon and Prof! 
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2010, 09:33:35 pm »
   I love the drawn profile of that bow looks great, My favorite kind of bow. Steve
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2010, 09:36:31 pm »
thanks Steve, it's my favorite profile, too...  :)
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2010, 03:00:41 am »
That looks really good to me, looks like the whole limb is working.
I think too many bows do all the work down near the handle*, but I think that one is spot on.
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2010, 04:03:08 am »
Looks good to me,just needs shooting,he should love that.Nice work. :)
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2010, 07:50:23 am »
Looks good to me
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2010, 07:50:45 am »
thanks for the input Pappy and Del and Marc!  :)
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Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2010, 10:15:33 am »
I think your tiller looks great.  Not sure how much experience the guy has with these types of bows - and just throwing in two cents from my experience in giving them away - make sure the guy knows how to brace the bow and watch him do it, slowly.  I made a nice hickory flatbow like that and gave it to a friend.  He told me he knew how to brace the bow.  I turned my back for a moment and he went to brace it putting all the flex on the last foot of the bottom limb.  Whamo!  It was a good bow too, almost identical to the specs you've got on that one.

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