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Selfbowman:
The slashed section will be thicker. The part that wiggles out from center will be thinner in thickness. It helps the limbs keep from twisting during the draw. I think anyway.🤠should help in shock also.
Selfbowman:
For the guys that heat by color is this about right?
Bob Barnes:
I'm not ignoring you Arvin, but I don't understand complicated stuff when it comes to building bows. The center line/thicker limb thing is beyond me. sorry I do know that I see quite a variety of colors when guys heat treat... I'd ask Marc since is is the authority on that. You are a bow building machine... :)
BTW- I just read somewhere that it is Badger's birthday today!
Selfbowman:
Well Happy Birthday Badger!!!! Bow b it’s more of a gut feeling. I you follow the grain that’s great but if it gets out of a straight line I feel it has a tendency to warp the bend in a bow. Just like a glass bow that has set on the end leaning in the comer strung for some years and the limb gets twisted. Now it’s a junk bow. I could be wrong. I often am. So I got the back finished and rubbed in by the shaft tamer and now for tip overlays and start the tiller. I think I’ll name it little wiggle.
PEARL DRUMS:
Color tells nothing of proper tempering. I can hold a heat gun about 1" away and make it look just like that in 20 seconds and it would do nothing for the bow. Or, I can hold the heat gun 3-4" away and it heats through the limb and looks like that after many minutes. The average bow should take no less than an hour to temper.
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