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Kegan:
Thanks everyone. I had been under the impression that the weight loss was supposed to happen. But, as J.D. had said, I might not be excersising them enough DURING tillering. This could explain it, and also why bows that are more "trouble" to tiller seem to hold their weight better because they are being excersised more during this point.

Thanks eevryone- you cleared up a big problem I've been wondering about! I should simply spend longer on the tillering and excersising the bow while building :).

Hillbilly:
While I'm tillering, once I get the bow to bending evenly, every time I take off any wood I pull it 30-35 times to whatever draw length I've got it tillered out to at the moment. I don't usually notice any significant drop in weight after shooting in. As Lennie said, don't pull it too much until it's bending evenly, though, or you can end up with a nasty hinge or a lot of set.

Kegan:
That is defiantely it then- I don't really work it in during the process, but after. That would explain the drop in weight while shooting it in. Just slow it down more and it won;t lose the weight :)!

Pat B:
You are still loosing weight as you remove wood and exercise but it is over an extended period and not all at once. All at once is when you over stress the wood, loose too much weight and get more set. Without exercising the bow, the wood removal doesn't always register and then all of a sudden you have a hinge, too much set or too little weight. When you pull your bow 20 or 30 times after each wood removal session(no farther than you have tillered to) you are allowing the wood to slowly get used to the bend it will take and also be able to recover back to its normal shape with only a little set.
   Boy, I think I just confused myself! ::) ;D ;)    Pat

Kegan:
What I usually did was, after removing a little wood, put it on the tillerig stick and leave it there as i look it over, and then when the tiler is on I would leave it at full draw for 30-60 minutes. After a few weeks or so there would be at least a drop of five pounds. This kept bugging me becausse I would notice the arrows drop a little more than they had before.

I was just always in a bit of "hurry" and neevr spent as much time as I should have during tillering :-[ :). Now I know ;D.

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