Thanks again guys!
Sent her off yesterday. Waiting for the hunting pics.
I did bring her it to fulldraw about a 100 times on the tiller and also shot a few arrows at 22" short draw - but she's wway too strong for me to acutally shoot. However the eating ist the proof of the pudding - so I'm very curious to hear from the new owner on how it really shoots.
Sending off those strong bows I always regret not to be able to shoot them myself - I'd really love to know how these bows shoots from personal experience - but that will never happen. I can just make them. Next one ordered is a 80 pounds at 35" draw - I did try to get rid of that customer by being a little rude, making it expensive and giving him the adress of his local bowyer in Canada - however it did not work - I will have to make this one too - it will sure be fun - lol
That's a heartbreaker Eric! I probably would have stepped back from this order too if that happened at thios stage of a build. It needs a lot of frustration tolereance to start over in such situation. As you have correctly noticed I actually tried to bring that back-ring intact into the sleeve. However, that cut through ring might only be one factor for your loss. Because, what I notice too on your picture is the short distance between the bending zone and the begin of the sleeve. I really think that might be too close to fully diminuish stress and could be a relevant factor. I made pretty long fades on my bow for that very reason. Thanks for sharing - that problem obviously is real. We are working on a fine line with making bows in many aspects - six million ways to die - choose one.
Simon
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