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First go with Black Locust - FINISHED with pics
jameswoodmot:
A bit further down the road of going back and fourth I definitely found this one tricky to tiller. I think I didn’t give enough heat when taking the twists out of the limbs and some of its crept back in.
jameswoodmot:
I ended up under weight as usual but I don’t think I could get much more from this piece of wood, it’s taken about 2” of set. I’m pretty sure it started at 3 1/2” and is now at about 1 1/2” of reflex.
38lbs at 26”
I glued on some temporary tip overlays so I could shoot it without he inappropriate string popping off. Shot like an absolute dog I have to take that spare weight out of the tips.
I’ve got no idea how narrow I can take the tips with this stuff and they’re slightly thinner than I had hoped. It’s not a heavy bow so I think I can still take some more width off them.
After some handle sculpting and tip narrowing it’s not too bad. Amazing what tip weight will do to a bow.
Hopefully you can see in that last photo the little bit of a wobble in the limb inside the flip, caused me some confusion that did!
I’ll get a full draw photo in a bit. Let me know where I could improve on my tiller!
Badger:
When you say the bow is a dog? How heavy are the arrows you are shooting? Once you get the profile narrowed down pretty good any further gains you get from additional narrowing will be small. If you measure the backset immediately after unstringing and then check it again 10 min later how much does it move back?
jameswoodmot:
Badger - it’s just ok massive in the tips at the moment, wants to beak my wrist and the arrows I had are on the light side for the bow. I left them real big but even after I took them down they were still large. I had a second go but I’ve got to get the proper tips on before I can shoot it again.
Probably comes back about half inch after ten minutes and then another half inch after an hour.
I reckon I’ve taken another 100 grains off each tip so we’ll see how that feels in a bit. I’m not worried about it really, just being hesitant with getting the weight off the outlets because I’ve had enough tips pull straight because I’ve over done it
jameswoodmot:
Ok so, tips skimmed down and nocks on. I had it in my head that I was making a 45ish lb bow, I haven’t made one in that weight range before, they’ve all been heavier or lighter so I was erring on the safe side. Once I remembered it was 38lb I had reference for how much I could slim them down.
I went to meet Del the Cat a little while ago, he has a particular way of doing his tips and tip overlays that’s about the most elegant I’ve seen. I didn’t quite get it right but not too far off. No dropping this one tip down on a hard floor!
Just been shooting it and it’s pretty nice now. Shoots a 316 grain arrow I’m guessing well into the 160’s. I’m not very experienced at guessing speeds but I know it’s a lot faster than the others I’ve been shooting recently. Quite a bit of vibration in it and it’s loud but I think that’s a result of the hard wood and wide limbs?
The sting on it is fast flight but for an 80lb bow, it’s definitely not helping the bow but it’ll be interesting to see what a more appropriate string is like.
I’ve just unbraced it after half a dozen arrows and 20 ish minutes braced and it’s straight back to an inch of reflex and moving whilst I measure it. Will measure again in 10 mins
Edit; 1 1/4” after 10 mins and 1 1/2” after half hour
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