Its looking good mike...i see your gluing up the limbs to the handle setback....are you going to do the same when you glue in the levers? And are you going to slightly reflex the locust levers too prior to gluing them in? Maybe splicing everything the way your doing is better than what i planned with one piece of wood as you can line everything up dead nuts straight,and glue it all together in setback instead of having to heat induce the shape?? Hmmmm....more questions to ponder....oh and what limb to lever ratio are you using?
Hmmmmmmmm.....questions indeed! Thats what I like about bow making - the never ending journey with no fixed destination...
I don't think there is any right or wrong really - if you can get it to work then it must be at least partially right.
I'll measure it all up and get the ratio for you.
Yes i've just heat bent the locust into a little reflex,not much because the tips will want to twist if it's excessive and then you would need to start drifting away from the advantages of these bows.
I made the handle set back because I figured it's probably the safest way to get the horn preloaded enough. The picture I posted earlier with the (not classic shape) Turkish bow shows how much it can bend,that bow is a C shape when un-strung...I plan on making the bending section very short on this bow. I'm not sure on the best way to taper the width in the bending section for maximum efficency. Badger???
