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Del the cat:
Indeed you don't want to heat treat a laminated bow.... I thought it was a self bow...
Del

DarkSoul:
I was expecting you to come in underweight, to be honest. You were working on that #@%^&! long string for too long! Better to not use a long string at all on heavier bows. Floor tiller a bit and then go to a short string at low brace straight away.

Don't heat treat it, obviously. Instead, pike it 1½" per limb. You can always pike it another inch, if needed. Looking at the current tiller, I think you should take equal lengths of both limbs. The right limb is actually bending a bit more than the left limb. Pike it first, but I'm guessing you'll need to scrape the inner 1/3 of the left limb to match the right limb. Make sure the back is pristine and the corners are rounded at this point (I can't judge that from the pics).

Eastman:
In that first pic I posted the bow was braced 6'' I guess I forgot to mention that :P I only used the long string to get to brace, but I'll definitely use your advice DarkSoul and just floor tiller and then go to a low brace.

Progress on the bow: I shortened it 2'' on each tip and fitted the horn nocks when the tiller looked fine. I screwed up getting a good fit for the horn, so I had to redo the taper on the tips. Long story short, the bow is 74'' t2t drawing a tad over 70# @31'' . I touched up the tiller and I'm quite happy with my efforts and I hope to make a better one next time round. Pictures to follow!

Peter-t123:
it wont take you two years to draw a bow of over 100lb

Eastman:
We visited my grandparents' farm and I took the bow along to shoot it in. Man I like this bow! It's the heaviest bow i've ever made and I like the way it shoots.It's probably like 69# or so @31'' (with Springbuck horn nocks). I did a bunch of flight shooting and long range roving at anthills. It shoots a 31'' arrow weighing 850 grains between 140-150m so i'm real happy with that. Excuse the rain droplets on the bow in the pics, it was raining all weekend. Thanks for looking.

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