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Mo_coon-catcher:
I've got the bow weakened up a bunch and I've hit the first low bracing this morning. And it is stout! On the long string I've pulled it back back as far as my current tree setup would allow me to before the scale bumps into the pulley. I'm going to fix that issue when the rain quits. Which was about 12" of movement and pulling about 105#, much better than the 150# at 6" of movement. This morning I beaced it to a 4" brace with the help of my buddy. And the d97 string stretched almost 1" when I relaxed the bow onto it. Im not used to that at all. The brace had a couple of spots that needed touched by nothing too serious. I did a short test pull on a scale to get an idea of the current weight and its pulling 50# with about 2" of string movement. And it's still holding te full 1" reflex the stave started with. I also had to straighten a kink  that made the string rest to the side of the handle and made the bow stoat around a bit. I've decided to keep the draw length to 28" and make the next one I build go the full 32". And here's a couple of pictures of the progress.

Kyle

ajooter:
Looking good kyle.  I would say the inner 2/3 s on the left limb is still a little stiff.but I see you have a natural kink your dealing with.  I'm gonna get backnow on my hhb elb soon hopefully. 

Mo_coon-catcher:
Well the bow started to take a smidgen of ser early on when pulled to 120#, so ifiguhred it didn't want to go above that. So I got it back to 24" at 120# when a couple of knota decided to take large frets. One of which formed by a drying check that splintered up a bit at the same time. So I went ahead and super glued the knots and wrapped those with silk thread and wrapped the other knots as a precaution for splintering. I'm going to drop the weight to 90# while leaving those areas alone and see how it likes to be pulled that weight. The set isn't too bad at this point considering he weight it was pulled and ye length I'm working with. About 1 1/2" at this point.

I'll keep updated as I go and will hopefully be having a full draw of it in the end.

Kyle

loon:
Almost seemed like all the hype about osage was warranted  :( hahahahaha

Blergh, knots.

good luck. For Osage you shouldn't go that long I don't think - http://poorfolkbows.com/aelb1.htm - I suspect his tiller wasn't very good for the length of the bow at least, though

Badger:
  For a fairly accurate reading of your current weight with a long string just read what it says on the scale at where the string is. Forget about the tip movement. If your string is hanging down loose to about 10" and it reads 150#@ 24" it will read pretty close to the same thing braced even though the tips are moving 3 times as much. Take a physical weight of the bow. At 69" you are going to want an arc of the circle tiller almost for sure. The bow should weight about 35 oz, not less than about 31 oz.

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