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Help with heat corrections on osage. /. Updated
bentstick54:
Well here’s a progress report. I’ve got it to 46#@26”. Limb on the right is the one that was deflexed/reflexed so badly, and twisted. 1st picture at full brace, 2nd at26”, and 1/3 after being strung 4 o 5 hours and shooting about 10 arrows off it. About 1/2” set in the outer 1/3 off the limbs immediately after unstringing.
Am shooting for 42#to 43#@28” final if I’m lucky.
superdav95:
Its looking good! It could be the angle of the pics but the right limb seems stiffer then the left in the middle of limb mainly.
bentstick54:
Dave, it is pretty much that way, but that’s the limb that still has the snake bend there, and where I tried to take all the deflex/reflex out of. That area is as thin as the rest and is actually moving more than it shows. Using a copy of Eric Krewsons tillering gizmo, it shows that area bending with the rest.
wooddamon1:
Looks great, nice work so far!
bentstick54:
Here’s a few pictures of the back profile. About 1/2 way into the tiller this far some of the twist in the right limb started coming back. I started to try to control it with edge limb thickness but wasn’t getting very far so I went back with the heat gun, it took very little at this point to take out the twist, but then I lost some of the flatness I put in. So I went back and heated again and got it back to where I had it at the start of tillering.
The snake in the upper (right) limb is where it doesn’t look like it’s bending as much, but when pulling on the tree it is bending some through there. There’s several small knots in that area, one of which I filled that had a hole in it with sawdust and super glue. I’ve about decided that I coaxed what I wanted this bow to be about as far as I could, and now it’s best to let it be what it wants to be. I’ve still got 2” to go and want to drop 3#-5# in that 2” so we’ll see.
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