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Winter project - Yew Recurve bow

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Dazv:
Form amazing work gordon one of my favourite bows is a yew bow you made one time and this bow will be awesome. With this bow did you use a long string or did you put it at a low brace first??? Thanks for sharing gordon.

Gordon:
Dazv, I did not use a long string to tiller the bow after the sinew job.

Thank you all again for the great comments.

I expect I will be posting more this weekend.

Kviljo:
Is there a reason for using such a broad tillering stick and clamp on the grip? I recently read the book "Target Archery" by Elmer, and in one passage he explains why it is important to use a narrow tillering stick. A broad tillering stick does not allow you to specify where on the grip you want the pressure/pivot point. This blurres the slight differences that is needed between the upper and lower limb. Part of this is also that the pressure point on the string should be somewhat higher than the pressure point on the grip. Only an Apache draw with all fingers under the arrow would allow the bow to be tillered with the pressure on the string directly beneath the pressure point of the grip.

Gordon:
I don't kvilgo. I'm an engineer by profession and as strange as it may sound the reason I like building primitive bows is because I don't have to overthink it. I suppose it is an escape of sorts. I just let my hands, tools and the wood do what they want and things just seem to turn out alright more often than not. Now a days I don't use my tillering tree for much more than exercising the bow and measuring draw weight (though I can estimate draw weight fairly accurately without it). What I've found is if I make the upper limb a little longer and softer, leave the tips a tad stiff, properly align the string with the handle and get both limbs working nicely the end result will generally perform pretty well.  And that's good enough for me.

Cameroo:
I knew you'd say that Gordon  ;) What's "needed" by some is not necessarily needed by all!  If it feels good, looks good, shoots good, what else matters?

I'm lovin this build along.  Thanks for taking the time!

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