Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

I was cleaning out my shop, after my last bow build, and decieded to make another bow with whati had in the shop. That is while I wait for some materials to come it. This bow is a cherry/white oak bi-lam Reflex/Deflex bow. I glued it up Sat. and started doing a little tillering yesterday.




55lbs at 22" Shooting for 60lbs at 28.

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

WTF mate you'll get lost in there now I can actually see the floor:D

I am hoping to get a start on Greg's bow Wed/Thur they shipped the lams on Friday;)

Am thinking about doing Yellow Heart and Leopardwood overlays on it but that might change when I get it glued up:)

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Yep, I have room to move now. I built some new shelves in the back so I could get all that wood I had on the floor out of the way. It also makes a world of differnence just vacuuming up the place.

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Boy, I feel like a loser. All I got done was roughing out that yew stave. And here you are on tiller in one weekend.

I did hymhaw alot on the layout.

How do you move so quickly?

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Practice.lol. It also helps when you have a decent design for the materials. I used a basic design, Ideveloped for similar materials with the same specs. So I got in the ball park when I cut out the stave. And with practice, you will start to learn where to, and where not to remove wood. Once I get a bow on a short string, it goes much faster. During floor/long string tillering, I just make sure the limbs are bending equally so they dont blow up getting to brace.Once at brace, it goes much quicker. Especially with that little tool I showed you.

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Looks good kent. When you tiller, do you tiller for split? And if you tiller for split, what do you do? 1/4" more tiller on top limb?

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

My best advice is to tiller the best you can, then use your weak limb as your top limb. I never cut a shelf until I get finished tillering. It is much easier to loosen a limb already weaker. Most of the time, i identify my weaker limb, while tillering and just keep the limb weaker and work it as such. I only tiller to 1/8" to 3/16"positive and no more. Ive heard of some going as much as 3/8". Ive always shot for 1/8-3/16". I shoot three under, so I do my final adjustments when setting my knock. Ive never had any problem with hand shock or finger pinch. Also, split finger shooters can adjust the knock with no problem as well. I actually shoot in new bows with split fingers. Its hard to hold an arrow on a naked string shooting three under.

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You know Kent, never thought of it that way. One thing you can always count on is one limb being a tad weaker than the other. Why fight it, and let it work for you?

How does it feel mentoring someone and not even knowing it thru the internet?

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Hes mentoring more than one person here!;)

RE: Burnies at it agian. Cherry and white oak
 

Hey kent, any reason you picked that combo of wood?