Trout lines are set, so back to the bow.

Now that the tips and handle have baked and cured, its time to clean them up and cut some nocks.


Cleaned up tips.


Unwraped handle. I wont mess with the handle until im done tillering.



Cutting the sting groves in the tips, I start by measuring in on each limb 1/2"on theback side in and 3/4" in on belly side and make a mark on the edge of the limbs. I then connect those two dots with a triangled file and make a shallow groove. I then come back with a chainsaw file and make those grooves deeper. Not real deep, just enough to hold a string. I want to save room for reducing the tips later.






I will now connect the two back side grooves with a chainsaw file and cut a shallow groove.






Now that all the easy stuff is done, its time for the hard part, the tillering. Im going to longstring tiller this bow instead of floor tillering. I floor tillered the stave to get it to where I could bend it into a reflexed shape, but now that it has about 1.5" of relfex and bamboo, it is very stiff.

I place the bow on the tiller tree with a long string and see how she feels.

Here she is flexed at 1.5"



Man, oh man, is she stiff. Iwill need to do lots of work to get her bending enough to brace her. This will take some time, so yall just set back and relax a while and ill return once she gets to bending a bit.