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Title: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 16, 2010, 09:10:27 pm

I am giving this bow to my sinew supplier (he gave me a BUNCH of deer legs this year  ;) )  I told him I was gonna make him a bow this year for saving me all the legs...  I want the bow to be perfect so it won't break on him... He's a newbie to the wooden bow....  The bow is 58 lbs at 29" right now and I know I need to get the tips bending a little more do you see anything else that needs to happen to it? It is red oak board, 1.75 inches wide at the fades for around 4 or 5 inches then tapering to 3/8" nocks...   I am gonna adjust the tips a little more tonight and then spend the rest of the week shooting the crap out of it to make sure it is gonna be ok. Then I am gonna stain it, seal it up, make some arrows and a bow stringer and then give it to him..  All opinions needed/welcomed...   Thanks for looking! 

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Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Keenan on February 16, 2010, 09:19:43 pm

Josh that is looking excellent, I'd say your there as long as you put a fair amount of rounds through it to make sure nothing changes, ;) Nice bow

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: George Tsoukalas on February 16, 2010, 09:23:41 pm

Tiller is great. Handle transition to limb looks very abrupt but photo is fuzzy. Jawge

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 16, 2010, 09:28:19 pm

thanks Keenan!
 thanks Jawge... I need to finish shaping the fades they are still a little choppy.  also I think i took the pic kinda quartering away from the camera a little too now that I look closer at it.   ;)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: El Destructo on February 16, 2010, 09:36:00 pm

Josh...work them Fade Transitions in some....and the make sure that everything is all nice and Rounded...no hard edges at all....and I'll bet it will be just fine

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Gordon on February 16, 2010, 10:34:19 pm

Tiller looks good to me - I don't think you need to do anything to the tips.

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: profsaffel on February 16, 2010, 10:39:45 pm

top limb might need a fraction taken off mid-limb, if you want to be real picky. But I'm no expert  :P Really though, if you didn't do anything else to it, the tiller would still be fantastic.

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 17, 2010, 12:19:28 am

thanks Mike, Gordon and Prof! 

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Badger on February 17, 2010, 12:22:47 am

   I love the drawn profile of that bow looks great, My favorite kind of bow. Steve

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 17, 2010, 12:25:43 am

thanks Steve, it's my favorite profile, too...  :)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Del the cat on February 17, 2010, 05:49:53 am

That looks really good to me, looks like the whole limb is working.
I think too many bows do all the work down near the handle*, but I think that one is spot on.
Del
*Which is ok if it's intentional, like a Holmgaaaaaard ;)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Pappy on February 17, 2010, 06:52:20 am

Looks good to me,just needs shooting,he should love that.Nice work. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Marc St Louis on February 17, 2010, 10:39:35 am

Looks good to me

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 17, 2010, 10:39:57 am

thanks for the input Pappy and Del and Marc!  :)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Parnell on February 17, 2010, 01:04:45 pm

I think your tiller looks great.  Not sure how much experience the guy has with these types of bows - and just throwing in two cents from my experience in giving them away - make sure the guy knows how to brace the bow and watch him do it, slowly.  I made a nice hickory flatbow like that and gave it to a friend.  He told me he knew how to brace the bow.  I turned my back for a moment and he went to brace it putting all the flex on the last foot of the bottom limb.  Whamo!  It was a good bow too, almost identical to the specs you've got on that one.

Urgh!

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 17, 2010, 02:13:23 pm

Quote from: Parnell on February 17, 2010, 01:04:45 pm

I think your tiller looks great.  Not sure how much experience the guy has with these types of bows - and just throwing in two cents from my experience in giving them away - make sure the guy knows how to brace the bow and watch him do it, slowly.  I made a nice hickory flatbow like that and gave it to a friend.  He told me he knew how to brace the bow.  I turned my back for a moment and he went to brace it putting all the flex on the last foot of the bottom limb.  Whamo!  It was a good bow too, almost identical to the specs you've got on that one.

Urgh!

10-4 there Parnell... I am going to demonstrate how to use the bow stringer I am making for him also and i am going to tell him NOT to brace it without it because it will break the bow, LOL... I am also going to make him shoot it in front of me so i can make sure the bow is not overdrawn.  I am also going to tell him not to let his friends draw the bow because we all know that they will probably try and draw it to behind their ear somewhere.    He is also getting a very DETAILED instruction booklet that I am making on the use, care, and maintenance of a wooden bow.     :)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: elk country rp on February 17, 2010, 11:14:25 pm

looks to me like the middle 3rd of the top limb is a butthair stiff

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 18, 2010, 02:41:16 pm

Quote from: elk country rp on February 17, 2010, 11:14:25 pm

looks to me like the middle 3rd of the top limb is a butthair stiff

heh heh ...buthair...  ;D

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: VenomBOWslinger on February 19, 2010, 02:10:21 am

After twisting my neck to see pic... looks like top limb a little stiff but not much.  It should be ok though.

Russ

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: Josh on February 19, 2010, 02:42:24 am

thanks, Russ.... The pic is tilted to make the bow straight as if it were sitting on the tillering tree. I figured it would make it easier to see the bend.   ;)   ...sorry about your neck  :)

Title: Re: tiller check (bow for someone else be critical)
Post by: VenomBOWslinger on February 19, 2010, 03:56:03 am

Josh its ok ur right for some reason certain angles make tillering to appear off..nice bow none the less and you always gave me good advice.  Thanx

Russ