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Muskyman:
If you heat it don’t draw it for a day or two. It’s liable to explode on you if it’s to dry.

Calios:
Ok then, i'll go for a heat treatment of the upper limb first, and then i'll figure out whether to repeat the process on the lower one as well. What about a reflex instead? I have been watching some of Del videos, and he mentions that a way to balance set is to counter with a reflex virtually realining tips with the handle. I am not sure if this would be a proper case to try this out, i would prefer not to overstress it. I might reduce max drawenght to 23/24 if the heat treatment sufficently increases weight

sleek:

--- Quote from: Calios on June 06, 2025, 10:20:04 am ---Ok then, i'll go for a heat treatment of the upper limb first, and then i'll figure out whether to repeat the process on the lower one as well. What about a reflex instead? I have been watching some of Del videos, and he mentions that a way to balance set is to counter with a reflex virtually realining tips with the handle. I am not sure if this would be a proper case to try this out, i would prefer not to overstress it. I might reduce max drawenght to 23/24 if the heat treatment sufficently increases weight

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Please dont! Do not reflex that poor bow haha! Reflex makes the limbs have to bend even further to get to draw from unbraced profile. What did that poor bow ever do to you anyway? Lol

Nah, heat it flare, or a little deflex if anything. You can reflex the tips to regain your string angle and early draw weight if need be. But no, reflex is the opposite of what you need to do here.

Calios:
of course, the idea was to slightly reflex just the tips, not the whole limb. I mean, i have a backset form, but as i can understand it's not a good solution to give it a backset

jameswoodmot:
If it was mine I would reflex the tips just a bit to help with string angle. 

I have a little 55” bow I’m working on at the moment that is tillered to 27” but it’s at about 18lb and got a good bit of deflex and flipped tips. The tips end up about 1 1/2” behind the handle. And it really stacks past 26.

An unbraced photo of your bow would be good

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