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Badger:
      I have seen quite a few posts on bows talikg about reflex and just thought I would offer my take on reflex.
I feel that if you want a bow to end up with 1" reflex you should start with no mare than 2" or if you want it dead even start with no more than 1'.  Thi spast year I have started testing my bows far earlier in the process than when they are finished usually somewhere around 22" I begain checking the performance. It is amazing how much performanc is affected at the slightest sign of the bow taking set from it's original starting profile, even before set becomes actually visible. The last year I have spent a lot of time trying to interpet this into something worth talking about and trying to look at it from different angles. The more I get into this the more significant it has actually become. I am seeing bows that at 24" of draw are basicaly peeked out, shooting at very high levels of performance even at that short draw, and start going downhill from that point on even though they look great and still end up good shooters. As an experiment I started going wider than I normally do to reduce the stresses and extend the draw a little more before the breakdown actually started to occur. I figured this would cause me to readjust my mass principle a little. To my pleaseant surprise the wider bows actually started comming out lighter than the narrow bows and much faster. Only thing I can attribute that to is no dead, crushed wood cells on the wider bows and all the wood on the bow is contributing to storing energy. Nothing new here, the guys from 50 years ago were preaching this same thing. Steve

koan:
Makes alot of sense to me.....Steve, your one of those rare individuals that can do and teach....Thanks

Brian

Justin Snyder:
Thanks Steve, it is sure nice to have someone who is studying the bows as they build them.  This keeps us all on the road to building better bows. Your sharing it also helps those of us with less experience build a good bow when we could be trying to learn everything the hard way  Thanks again,  Justin

Jbell:
Great info Steve, nice having guys like you to teach all of us a thing or two. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and theories.

Do you have any thoughts on why the wider bows are turning out lighter? For some reason in my mind they would be about the same weight, as a narrow bow will have a thicker belly and a wide bow will have a thinner belly for the same draw weight. Sorry If i am not making any sense.

Jbell:
OOOh Yeaah, now I get It duh! The wider bows are taking less set therfore need less wood for the same draw weight as the narrower bow with more set which needs a little more wood for the same draw weight. Or maybe I don't get It, thanks for making me think though. ;)

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