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Badger:
I do it the same way you do, I rough them out by mass weight. It always gets me very close, sometimes too close for comfort LOL. Beautiful job on that bow. I sure hope you can make it to the narionals one day. That bow would also qualify as a self bow in the broadhead class. I doubt anyone could get near it with anything past or present.
The tiller is beautful.
Badger:
I was watchin a guy on you tube crank back a 225# elb on his tiller tree. Every time he stopped cranking to check weight you could see the weight just dropping. I don't know if it was his first time drawing it or if it had been drawn several times before but it lost a ton of weight in compression. He didn't show the unbraced profile but I bet it had taken some serious set.
Ian.:
Thanks for the comments Steve.
About the compression: I did film that on this bow so when the video is done my tilering process can be seen. As a rule of thumb I think 20" is when you can start to notice damage to the bow. When I first hit 20" on the tiller this bow was 120lb exactly then when I drew it to 28" I reweighed it at 20" and the weight was 114lb so it lost 6lb through that 8 inches of bending. That is pretty damn good for a bow of this weight and I know that is the reason it didn't take set and the string is very taunt when braced. It's all about the principle of tillering a bow when you know it's going to bend near perfectly first time.
Badger:
6# loss at that kind of weight is a tripple a+ for tillering. As you say get it started right and it will likley stay right if designed properly.
Badger:
Considering the profile you held I believe that bow has the ability to break a record that might stand for decades to come. I would consider shooting it in self broadhead as well as elb unlimited flight.
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