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Update on 120# yew warbow - I don't like to complain, but...
WillS:
She's getting there folks, she's getting there! I've been given the most amazing help from Ian a very talented bowyer and member of the EWBS. He's been picking up on stuff I had literally no idea about and it's shown me just how much I have yet to learn - especially when it comes to separating the tiller technique of warbows and normal weight bows.
This bow is not there yet, there still needs to be a lot more tip movement to really get the true Mary Rose shape, but at least it's looking more like a bow now! I'm only posting this unfinished tiller pic as a reference point, and hopefully it's interesting to a few of you. It's also a fair bit over weight still, but as TMK said, the very fact that it's taking this much weight on a broken/repaired limb is a bit of a miracle, and certainly not down to any skill - more a "suck it and see" type thing.
It's taken probably 2" of set now, fairly evenly spread - either a sign of too long on the long string, or due to the fact that my tiller setup is outside, and with the weather we're getting here in the south of England "humidity" is an understatement...
Del the cat:
It looks pretty circular to me. The extreme tips will never move.
Looking good.
If you have the tiller rig up the other way with the bow supported on a fixed block, you can have a rule to measure ditance more readilly.
I'm counting bricks to work out the draw on that pic.
Really please to hear you are making progress. Tillering a warbow is indeed a shift from a target weight bow.
Hope it gets there.
Del
WillS:
Thanks Del.
Marc St Louis:
Very nice. The only thing I would do with that bow is get the outer limb to work a bit more, on the right
WillS:
Thanks very much Marc! Yep, that's the limb with the reflex, it's slowly starting to behave itself but still needs some more work. I appreciate the help!
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