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WhistlingBadger:
Hm, you guys are not exactly fueling my optimism!  ha ha   ;D  I have a month to wait while the sinew cures on another project, so I'll stay busy with this one, see what I can do, and not expect too much.  If I get a shooter, it will be a nice surprise. 

Come to think of it, I say that about all my bows, too! 

sleek:

--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on October 26, 2025, 07:56:28 pm ---Hm, you guys are not exactly fueling my optimism!  ha ha   ;D  I have a month to wait while the sinew cures on another project, so I'll stay busy with this one, see what I can do, and not expect too much.  If I get a shooter, it will be a nice surprise. 

Come to think of it, I say that about all my bows, too!

--- End quote ---

Id attack that a different way. Let me find my favorite bow build ( i say that about all my bows lol ) and post it here to show you how id tackle that one.

Hamish:
 For these ones you need to get a clear picture in your mind of how you think this stave in going to look with perfect tiller for its shape(rather than perfect tiller on a perfect stave)

I do this by doing a drawing of the stave before tillering, relaxed, and also how it should look strung and at full draw. If you don't do something similar, it can be hard to keep each limb doing its fair share of the work, even if the thickness taper is correct. If you put it down for a couple of weeks and don't have a drawing, when you start again it's easy to get confused, whether its bending properly, or whether one limb is taking too much set in relation to the other. Without a hard reference you won't be able to tell.

WhistlingBadger:
Sleek, I'll look forward to seeing that.

Hamish, that seems like good advice.  I was just messing with it a little bit, and when I hold the grip comfortably, the limbs sit almost straight up and down, though one is several inches forward of the other.  So I think I'll put a block under the handle to get it sitting level on the tree, then try to get the limbs bending as evenly as possible.  The individual limbs aren't all that weird by themselves; they're just so different it's going to be a challenge to get them balanced.

sleek:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,53940.0.html

This is how I handled a similar stave. Killed my first and only deer with it too.

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