Primitive Archer

There ae some nice looking air dried ones on eBay from the same seller. They have gone up since the days I could buy a matched set for $25, looks like it would be closer to $100 now.

Beautiful work, man if my second even my 10 or 20th had looked anything like that I would have thought I had died and went to Heaven. Very nice work. beautiful in all aspects.
 Pappy

Thank you!  I definitely took your advice from some of the other topics on the forum about hickory bows.  All of the info available on here allows people to skip some of the learning curve.

I think most could learn from you, Arvin.  tillering can be an art.
Do you find the set happening in the same places when it ocurs? perhaps if you could write a little about how you monitor set as you tiller out. where you measure. when you measure etc, detail your procedures a bit more for the reader

maybe the set gets worse as you shoot the bow more?

With all that encouragement ya u gave me I don’t see much hope.🤠🤠🤠

Dont despair! Arvin

Perhaps if you describe in broader terms what you wish to accomplish, folks could offer suggestions.

for instance, I recall some of the bow design changes you have tried from your "tried and true design" have resulted in bows taking more set and not performing as well. Perhaps a more pratical approach would be a better way to monitor set as the bow gets tillered, rather than examining the theory of why it happened

when you are pushing the performance of wood to the max, and measuring success by yards at Bonneville. skills trump theory, and the winners are fine tuning the best to begin with

I also tend to prefer a vise, but have enjoyed using a shave horse now and then.  I am planning to build something like this one over the summer:
http://www.greenwoodworking.org/shaving-horse-plans/
There are lots of variations in shave horses, so looking at a few different ones should get your creative juices flowing!