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Limb Twist on Handle Section

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superdav95:
Great advise here.  Only thing I’ll add is if you wanted to add any reflexed tips of flipped tips you may want to incorporate that into your caul jig design when and if you build one.  You want to avoid double heat session an area more then once for corrections when possible.  You might get away with it sometimes but eventually it gets real brittle.  Heat corrections work well for Osage.  If you go this route of flipped tips in this build start at the tips of one limb working back toward the handle and let it cool.  Then do the same on other limb to match.  This can be used to align your tips with handle and fix you twist at the same time.   Best of luck.  Just how I do it when I plan on flipping tips and fixing twist or other alignment issues. 

Selfbowman:
You can cut a slot in the handle and heat a thinner section and get the twisted section out .then fill with a shim and glue new section on the handle belly.

Selfbowman:
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Selfbowman:
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Eric Krewson:
I would start by cutting the belly of your handle at an angle that is on a plane to straighten out most of the twist. If you have 2" of width in your handle you should have enough room to get the handle sides parallel with your limbs.

When I get billets ready to splice, I put the belly of a spliced section on a flat surface and sight down the limb. I flatten the splice end belly at what ever angle it takes to remove as much of the twist as I can before I cut the splice.

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