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loon:
nice work!

mikekeswick:
I'm surprised nobody has said but next time forget this 'true arc of a circle' tiller for elbs'  Your tiller should be more elliptical. Elb's taper in thickness. Wood at any given thickness can only bend so far. As wood gets thinner it can bend further. If thicker it can only bend less. Put all that together and apply that thinking to an elb and you have an elliptical tiller. I still think the handle is bending a little too much and mid limb out should be bending more.
The wood will have told you! If you look at where on your bow the set is you get a definitive answer on tiller that is never wrong!
Anyway well done on making a working bow ;)

willie:
I hope nobody construes "a true arc of a circle at full draw might be a good place to start" as being a given for all elb's. I make no claims to being an authority on elbs, and gladly defer to those with more experience across the pond. The uniform bend idea was suggested as a possible way to hone tillering skills.

WillS:
FWIW some of the best bowyers in the world specialising in "true" English warbows/longbows and responsible for numerous records tiller their bows to a perfect circle.

mikekeswick:

--- Quote from: WillS on September 22, 2016, 10:51:49 am ---FWIW some of the best bowyers in the world specialising in "true" English warbows/longbows and responsible for numerous records tiller their bows to a perfect circle.

--- End quote ---

Good for them. ;)
As wood gets thinner it can bend further before taking set. There are ways to prove this scientifically but simply watching set will tell you that an elliptical tiller is correct for any elb 30# or 130#. If you think about it it is quite obvious really ;)  I guess where a lot of people get hung up is on the amount of progressive bend needed - it isn't a huge amount. I suppose it is easy to think in back and white when actually we are talking about shades of grey.

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