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Update on 120# yew warbow - I don't like to complain, but...
WillS:
--- Quote from: meanewood on January 12, 2014, 05:20:06 pm --- I'm keen to learn from Wills experiences.
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Me too ;)
Del the cat:
@ Meanewood... (sorry to hijack the thread, but it's sort of relevant)
If you are working with Elm, it will need heat treating. I'd use the heat treating as an oportunity to equalise the bend in the limbs at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone and make the tillering easier.
The 100# Elm warbow I did recently had issues like that with a nasty kink in one limb.
I corrected it to a degree to even up the limbs and it helped immensely.
If you look at it in this post, it's horrid... follow along the subsequent posts and you can see it finally ends up looking ok.
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/busy-weekend.html
Del
meanewood:
Thanks Del
Yes, I have already heat treated one, so I could give it a second session while having the dips clamped to a straight block!
Marc St Louis:
You know you can heat-treat Yew. Just do the lower density/weaker limb and leave the other alone. I've done that to Elm and Yew before.
WillS:
Yeah I've heat treated every yew bow I've ever made so far. I was really hoping to avoid it with this one, as the stave was so clean and straight when I started! I don't think it's necessary just yet with this one, but I'm certainly no stranger to standing for 4 days straight holding a heat gun...
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