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bershirebowmen:
Greetings all,
I'm in the process of reworking an Italian yew warbow. It was meant to be 162@32 and is 81&1/4" long. I found the bow to be very whip ended with little movement in the inner limbs and no movement in the centre, it stacked terribly and stress frets developed on the mid outer limb around knots and were becoming a concern. I also coud not draw it past 28" which was disappointing me after training hard to do so .I took some wood off at the centre and inner limbs to take off the stress(quite a bit)/and got it moving throughout the bow and weighed it and I got 160@31"!?! Anyway I've decided to shorten the bow to around 78". I' also going to steam it straight (doesn't need to much) and maybe temper the belly too with a heatgun sometime after, then retiller from again from scratch(and narrow it some, its 42mm wide at the centre), That's the plan. One question I have is about a knot mid outer limb. It's been left bulbous on the belly and was causing it to fret above and below, I've reduced it some which took out some of the stress, is it nessescary to leave it so built up on the belly?, sorry I can't seem to load a pic. (Edited my terminology: inner limb for lower limb(closest to centre). Outer limb for upper limb, furthest from centre).)

Berkshirebowmen.

bershirebowmen:
Managed to resize pics,
(Also 4" of the bottom limp tip looked in danger of snapping if I could of got a longer draw from it)

WillS:
Different people have different opinions on leaving knots proud on the belly.  I've personally found that as soon as you get into the serious weights ignoring knots or even pins on the belly is asking for trouble. 

I've had this happen once too many times to ignore belly knots now - this is on a 125# self yew and I left it thinking it was far too small to even consider. 



So I would say always leave a small bulge both back and belly around knots, no matter how small they are. 

I assume by your description of the original tiller it was a certain C.P. made bow?

bershirebowmen:
Yep your right, anyway these pics are after I've reduced it, and seems to of reduced stress, now on to straightening and shortening. Thanks, I'll leave it like this for now then

bershirebowmen:
Ome more pic of the belly view

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