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Osage bow for 33 inch draw

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bassman211:
Thanks for your input everybody. I have one more important question.  The bow he made is a nice clean piece of Osage 66 inches long. His fades are weak, and his outer 1/3 limbs are wide , thick, and heavy. As a result the bow has 3  to 4 inches of set on the bottom limb ,and 2 inches on the top limb, and is bad out of tiller. Skinny handle with terrible hand shock. I was thinking of putting the bow back on a 4 inch reflex form, and giving it a super heat treat after correcting the outer 1/3 of both limbs to make it a better bow. He didn't heat treat the bow when he made it. In the past I have improved  some  bows using this method.

sleek:
Do your heat treat first, then correct the tiller. And yes, you can awaken the bow with the corrections you suggest here.

bassman211:
Thanks Sleek.

Flntknp17:
One other thing to take into account for limbs that long is to make SURE the tips are as sleek and light as you can possibly make them, or the bow will have excess vibration.  I made a 70" stiff handle osage selfbow for a friend with a true 32" draw and it came out just fine.  No issues at all other than having to extend my tillering tree beyond what it was built for!  Also, use some sort of hard tip overlay like horn or micarta or bone so that you can safely use a fastflight (or even better D97/450+) bowstring material.  Strings that long in B50/B55/B500 stretch a lot and aren't as pleasant.

Matt

bassman211:
I use tiny  tips on my bows, and D97, 652x, or BCYX for string material. Right now he is shooting 14 strands of B55. The build seminar had him tillering ,and shooting a fully twisted 20 strand B50 string, and testing the bow  with wood arrows. ???

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