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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Bend check after heat treating
« on: September 08, 2017, 07:33:21 pm »
This is a BL bow I've been working on. It's got some natural deflex, so I flipped the tips a bit after I had the tiller worked out.

Then... I gave it a good heat treating and holy monkeys... it gained a ton of draw weight :o - like 15 lbs.

So now I've got to remove wood, but I thought I'd check with you guys to see if you see any areas you think I should concentrate on, or if you think the bend looks good in which case I'll just remove an even amount across the entire belly.

Thanks in advance for your input.  :)
 
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2017, 07:51:18 pm »
You could bring the bend back into the fades on the top and bottom limbs. Other than that she looks good.   :OK
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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2017, 08:03:58 pm »
15#'s .....That is a bunch!!!Holy Monkeys is right!!!!
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2017, 03:58:11 am »
Bend looks good to me thats crazy weight gain if you have any more of that BL you got war bow material  (=)
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2017, 06:15:24 am »
Looks very good. Nice job.
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2017, 07:14:44 am »
Looks more like the mid limb areas could work a bit more to me.  If you just heat-treated it then I would hold off reducing much weight until it hydrates back up.
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2017, 08:37:17 am »
Thanks all for your thoughts. I haven't worked a whole lot w/ BL. I remember many of you saying how well it reacts to heat treating, but I wasn't quite expecting it to react that well.  (=)

Sounds like some scrapes off the mids to inners then overall weight reduction is the way to go.  :)
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Re: Bend check after heat treating
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2017, 09:21:02 am »
Thanks all for your thoughts. I haven't worked a whole lot w/ BL. I remember many of you saying how well it reacts to heat treating, but I wasn't quite expecting it to react that well.  (=)

Sounds like some scrapes off the mids to inners then overall weight reduction is the way to go.  :)

Exactly, so I would do!
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