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Inaugural “junior” bow trade

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superdav95:
Sounds like a good plan Mike. 

Muskyman:
Well I took my bow out to the shop today and strung it back up. It appears to me to have a bit of a whip tiller about 8-9 inches from the tip and I don’t really think I’ll have enough weight left to tiller that out of it and hit my draw weight.

So I have another question… if I bend static recurves into the last 8 inches of it will that help me get some draw weight back or will the whip tiller still be there in front of the recurve on the weak limb. I’ll try and post some pictures later today so you can see what I’m dealing with and what I’m thinking of trying to make this still work out for me.

Either way I definitely learned a lesson about making bows. One I won’t forget. I can still make a nice bow out of it but maybe not as stout as I wanted.

Muskyman:
The reflex was a bit different in the limb so I bent it and evened them up yesterday.. I might make it. This is it at almost 20 inches and 33 lbs..think it’ll make 45 lbs at 27 inches?

Left limb is a little flat on the outer half looks like to me.

Muskyman:
Pretty much done. Only thing I’ll do from here in take a little off the tip and put whitetail tip overlays on.. after sanding with 120 grit it weights 43.5 lbs. I actually shot it a few times today. I’ll put the overlays on it and check the tiller again then finish sanding it and shape the tips a bit. It’s a 1 & 1/2 lbs under my target weight but I’m going to live with that.

Muskyman:
Pretty much done. Only thing I’ll do from here in take a little off the tip and put whitetail tip overlays on.. after sanding with 120 grit it weights 43.5 lbs. I actually shot it a few times today. I’ll put the overlays on it and check the tiller again then finish sanding it and shape the tips a bit. It’s a 1 & 1/2 lbs under my target weight but I’m going to live with that.

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