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madcrow:
Dang, I feel another project coming soon.

Boro:
Grant, that is a great bow You made.
Excuse my ignorance, earlier in this thread an eliptical and kompass tiller was mentioned, could someone explane to me the difference between the above two?
Thanks in advance.

Boris

grantmac:
It is a refernce to two different types of warbow tiller. Most bows are tillered to be eliptical with the tips bending most and the handle bending very little at full draw. Some warbows are tillered to the arc of a circle with much more bend in the handle. This is because there are some literary references to bows that (I'm probably misquoting here) "bend to the arc of the compass".
This bow is pretty close to an arc of the compass bend, it had to be to get the drawlength from it's relatively short length. In the future I will be making my bows longer and using a more eliptical bend.
Hope that makes sense,
                        Grant

Boro:
It sure does. Thank You Grant. ;D

Boris

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