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sleek:
Be careful doing that. Moving the tips in changes the tiller shape, stressing the inner limb more.
RyanY:
With such low set, I might have prioritized the shorter weight and draw length. Hopefully pushing it won’t stress it too much more. Looks really impressive.
Badger:
Dave somewhere you had mentioned shooting a fresh bow that had never been taken to full draw. I know of some real-world cases, and it is dramatic! I made an English longbow for Josef. He broke a world record with it at 450 yards. The bow had been tillered to 28", and on his first shot in practice, he drew it further than 28 and shot 530 yards. Another bow I had, I was working on a bow between rounds at the flight shoots. The bow I was working on was just a regular straight bow with about 1" reflex natural. Just for fun I decided to shoot it without ever having drawn it back before and I hit 387 yards. with a 50# bow. If you test this on a crono you will see how dramatic the results are. Build a simple shooting machine and use it with a scale in line that can hold the pondage reading. Tiller your bow out to about 24" tops and when you project it will hit 50# put it on the shooting machine. It is amazing how much we loose even on our best bows.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: sleek on February 25, 2026, 04:50:07 am ---Be careful doing that. Moving the tips in changes the tiller shape, stressing the inner limb more.
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Ya I thought on it a while and came to the decision to try it. I haven’t put a string on it yet to see how it’s changed it up. My thinking was it was pretty long as it was at 69” ntn. The sweeping tips seemed to have plenty of length yet when looking the profile. Fingers crossed I guess. Worst case I’ll just build another. This one only took me a day to get glued up.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: RyanY on February 25, 2026, 09:40:46 am ---With such low set, I might have prioritized the shorter weight and draw length. Hopefully pushing it won’t stress it too much more. Looks really impressive.
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Thanks Ryan. I was originally thinking of just leaving it as it was. Making the change to shorten it may be a mistake and put more stress past the tipping point. I’ll see when I get it strung up to see for sure. Nothing ventured nothing gained I suppose.
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