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Tillering problems. I really think its the wood's fault, not the bowyer.
Goose Fletch:
Haha thanks. I suppose patience does help as well.
Here is the most recent tillering check. The stiff limb is becoming increasingly thin, its a little frightening, still not sure where to remove wood now.
DarkSoul:
Is the bow braced to a full brace height? It should be, by now. What weight are you drawing it to, in the last picture? The tiller looks pretty good, but the right limb is just stiffer than the left limb. I'd scrape the full length of the right limb with a scraper for three minutes and check again. Make sure to exercise the limbs at least thirty times after each tiller correction is made.
toomanyknots:
72" is pretty short for 100 @ 32 in most cases anyway, so I would just pike the weaker limb and just let the bow come out however it wants to come out. That would get your tiller to come around, you might have to lob off a good couple inches though. I wouldn't brace it till it looks even, just me.
Goose Fletch:
--- Quote from: DarkSoul on May 27, 2014, 07:58:09 pm ---Is the bow braced to a full brace height? It should be, by now. What weight are you drawing it to, in the last picture?...
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Thanks, and yes, it is braced to full height at the moment. It pulls to about 75# right now. Just gotta keep scraping and exercising but I am planning to pike it as well. Its pretty long right now.
Knots, I agree with you, 72" is too short. thankfully its 84" long haha ;) (sorry for not indicating its length in inches, I just lazily wrote 7 feet in the original post). If I pike it, would I need to grip it in the center of the new length or should I hold the bow where I used to hold it before piking?
Del the cat:
Have a look at this post from my blog, it shows how you can experiment with piking a limb by different ammounts without taking off any wood!
I had exactly the same 'weak limb' problem.
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/drat-lost-some-weight.html
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