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"leaning" bow limb
Gordon:
Thank you for all of the suggestions. Regarding dry heat, serviceberry does not seem to readily respond to the heat gun. I've heated it to the point where I am practically tempering the wood and it still refuses to move. It does, however, respond well to steam and I have attempted to correct the alignment, but have not had much success. Taking more wood off the "strong" side seems logical but I'm not sure which side that is. Is it the side that leans or the other side?
Pat B:
It should be pulling towards the strong side. Pat
NOMADIC PIRATE:
If you have quite a few pounds still to give, it might just alling itself thru the tillering as you bend it more and more, at least that's what happenes to most of the bows I made that had that problem, ....and help it a bit by favoring the week side too
Gordon:
Manny, I still have quite a few pounds to shed so maybe that will work.
Pat, I did a search on various forums and saw a lot of conflicting statements regarding which side is the strong side in this kind of scenario. It is not intuitive to me that the side that is leaning is the strong side. That's because in order to lean in a particular direction there should be less resistance to bending in that direction. That would seem to indicate it is actually the weak side. But I could have it completely backwards. Needless to say I'm totally confused...
NOMADIC PIRATE:
The week side is the one where the string lyes out of,........I think ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D, that's the one I always favored, ....hope I was right this all time ;D ;D
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