This is a little hickory bow I'd been experimenting with for awhile now. I posted last week looking for comments on the tiller and design aspects of BITH
bows (thanks for the help). I did make one more adjustment to the bottom limb to take some pressure of the top and handle area. Its hard to believe how touchy
this type tiller really is.
This bow is very close to 50 lbs @ 28, 1.375 wide off the handle, 59 inches long. The handle area is 1 inch wide with a couple pieces of leather, one in the front, one in the back for filler. It has some string follow of about 1.5 after shooting but over several hours returns to about 1/8 reflex at the tips (or has so far, only about 50 arras thru it). The set this bow picked up was a stretch about 4 inches up the handle on one limb of about 1/8 inch. Picture two below shows the back grain, twist and rolls as I rotated the limb 45 degrees.
My relationship with Hickory is improving as we are starting to understand each other.....The cast of this bow is light years ahead of my other low cast logs that I've built, (yeah, I'm excited, can't you tell?). This little bow was fun journey, thanks to those who helped me out along the way.
Here a few poorly taken pictures to look at, still better than what I normally post. Greg
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This bow is very close to 50 lbs @ 28, 1.375 wide off the handle, 59 inches long. The handle area is 1 inch wide with a couple pieces of leather, one in the front, one in the back for filler. It has some string follow of about 1.5 after shooting but over several hours returns to about 1/8 reflex at the tips (or has so far, only about 50 arras thru it). The set this bow picked up was a stretch about 4 inches up the handle on one limb of about 1/8 inch. Picture two below shows the back grain, twist and rolls as I rotated the limb 45 degrees.
My relationship with Hickory is improving as we are starting to understand each other.....The cast of this bow is light years ahead of my other low cast logs that I've built, (yeah, I'm excited, can't you tell?). This little bow was fun journey, thanks to those who helped me out along the way.
Here a few poorly taken pictures to look at, still better than what I normally post. Greg
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