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Badger:
 The perfect round tiller is what causes the handshock. The limbs hit at the same time instead of unwinding. Excellent speed because perfect round tillers take less set. One of the trade-offs we put up with.

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: Badger on March 24, 2026, 03:51:06 pm --- The perfect round tiller is what causes the handshock. The limbs hit at the same time instead of unwinding. Excellent speed because perfect round tillers take less set. One of the trade-offs we put up with.

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I’m thinking it’s like resonate frequency thing?

Like a tuning fork

Bjrogg

jameswoodmot:
This is great I’ve got loads of things to look at now (and more experiments)

I’ve heard about bendy handle bows having a lot of handshock but not experienced it myself, however this is the “roundest” tillered bow I’ve made. When tillering I just tried to get an even bend and maintain the even set. The idea of bendy handle bows having a lot of shock I assumed to be more about them bending too much in the middle and not enough at the tips and as a result being too heavy in the tips. It didn’t occurring to me at all that it would be anything other than that.

I have noticed one of the tips is quite a bit bigger, maybe an extra 1/8” width on the last 6”, I feel like uneven weight is probably also going to make the bow resonate weirdly?

Got a leather pad and comfy grip on it and the one tip slimmed down, will see how it shoots tomorrow

Pappy:
Nice job, beautiful tiller. :)
 Pappy

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