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Bows / Re: Stress and performance
« Last post by willie on Today at 10:30:12 pm »Arvin,
if you overbuilt the entire linb you would lower the actual stress throughout the entire limb, which might incur a mass penalty. I dont think it matters if the first few inches coming out of the fades were thicker or wider so long as its stiffer.
Badger used to leave the inners on the stiffside as he tillered out, and brought the bend in towards the handle more if it looked like he was getting too much set too early. My guess is that near handle set is to be avoided more over set taking further out. Perhaps he is reading along
if you overbuilt the entire linb you would lower the actual stress throughout the entire limb, which might incur a mass penalty. I dont think it matters if the first few inches coming out of the fades were thicker or wider so long as its stiffer.
Badger used to leave the inners on the stiffside as he tillered out, and brought the bend in towards the handle more if it looked like he was getting too much set too early. My guess is that near handle set is to be avoided more over set taking further out. Perhaps he is reading along