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Finger Calipers Build (full draw pg3)

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PaSteve:
That's looking great for starting as a crooked stick BJ. My brain can't read my fingers that well. Looking forward to the end result.

Selfbowman:
BJ your the king of finger calipers! I’m loving the test. Tuned in.🤠

airkah:
This had me smiling as soon as I read the title. The update posts were just as great. Can't wait to see the finished bow!

bjrogg:
Thanks everyone.

I’m hoping that this will encourage people to trust their fingers more.

Try it out. Spend some time with your favorite bow. Run your fingers up and down its limbs. Calibrate them.

As I run my fingers from fades to tips I should feel the limbs loosening in my fingers in a even rate as the thickness decreases towards the tip.

Then run them from tip to fade. Feel the even increase in tightness as the thickness of the limb gradually increases.

I can easily feel very small differences in thickness. Humps, bumps and valleys.

The good lord gave us some amazing bodies.

Blind people can read with their fingers.

Give them a try. Listen to them and learn to trust them.

I don’t suggest tillering a bow like this. I do encourage people to use the tools we have been given though.

Bjrogg

PS this experiment isn’t over yet. I still need to see that full draw and hopefully shoot a couple thousand arrows

Selfbowman:
BJ I built my first 50 or so bows by touch and looking at the bows brace. Then I had a drill bit that I pulled bow down from the top of my bow shop door watching it bend and making corrections. About the years later I built a tillering tree. Yes it’s been fun.

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