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Watch me build a reflex deflex boo backed ipe. NOT INSTRUCTIONAL
Jesse:
Thanks for the info Rich. I trust your method but I never tested ability to floor tiller all the way to brace height. I guess I could give it a try. Nothing ventured nothing gained right?
Dana--- I just got of the phone with the boss and I got the official GO AHEAD IF YOU MUST! :D
Rich Saffold:
Yes, Jesse, just like you are stringing it push pull style. This also lets you know if the limbs are getting unstable. If they are, you have a firm grip to make sure it doesn't twist too much. It's why I either string my bows this way, or with a stringer. I'm not a fan of step through methods since I have seen limbs twisted, and overloaded.
You needed more belly wood removed, and after this if it still feels unstable check the limb taper to make sure it keeps tapering and there are no straight sections, and the same applies with limb thickness it has to be a gradual smooth taper. The other check I do is to make sure no limb section is getting closer to square than others, and on these longer bows like yours there is more room for this to happen especially where the limbs reflex on the outer limbs.
Part of why I floor tiller these is to feel how the limbs are responding, and when you look down the limbs like this every flaw in the tiller is visually magnified, and its easier to stop before overstraining the limb and fix it because in your hands you can feel if its starting to stack, and also see this. As they say "tiller is everything", and on these bows its "Really everything" because it is more critical. It's like the car analogy, now you are working on a lamborghini ;D
Rich
Jesse:
Well I got a medium brace on it now and its looking ok. Nothing major is jumping out at me yet.
I pulled it back a little and it looks like the left limb needs a little work near the handle to match the right and then I will go from there. I plan to make the left limb the top because of a node I dont want in the grip.
The string alignment looks great so far
Rich Saffold:
I agree, the left side a bit. Just down from your fingers in the pic. where the wood changes shade, the limb looks a touch wide right there, a little more on your forefinger side ;). but maybe I'm seeing something too.
Rich
Jesse:
Rich are you referring to the string tracking? I am looking at the bow and the timber hitch in the pic is pulled a little to the left of center. I just moved it to center and the string looks better. Jesse
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