Hickory board Bow tiller

[DLH]

Have a hickory board bow bend in the handle bow its 1 3/8 out about two inches and then tapers to 3/4in side nocks hows it looking so far its 55# @15in right now. Have a question though the nock is wanting to split out I glued a hard maple wedge in there but it is starting to do it again any suggestions I can post pics of that too if it helps?
Thanks in advance!

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[RobWiden]

    Without a picture, I'm just assuming I know what you mean about the nock splitting. I've never had that happen with hickory, but lots of times with softer wood. Nowadays I almost always use an overlay and just go with a back nock. I like the look better and most of my tips are too narrow for side nocks anyway.

[DarkSoul]

Your pictures are very, very tiny. I'm sure your camera takes larger pics; why do you resize them this much? Photobucket accepts larger pics without a problem. Try uploading some bigger pictures, also of the unknown tree for ID.

The tiller looks pretty good for now. Are you working on a short string? This would be the time to go to the short string, and not use a long string any more. If this is the short string, I would advice you to take some wood off the handle and the outer limbs. Basically, the inner one third is a bit stiff, and the outer one third is a bit stiff as well. The center one third of each limb is just fine.
Hard maple is not exactly a very dense wood for nock overlays. But they should work, if you glue them on in the right way and if you file in the grooves correctly. I'd need to see a picture to confirm that, but judging by the fact that the nock starts splitting, I'm assuming the overlays has not been grooved correctly. Look up some examples of nice nock overlays on this forum, and copy that to your bow nocks.

[DLH]

Its on the short string and I was leaving the handle stiff until later. When would be a good time to start tillering into the handle? I have been removing some wood around 4-6in from the center of the bow on both sides. The tips are stiff should I get them moving more now or leave them be they are noticeably thicker for sure. Here are so pics of the nock and a better picture of the bow I usually resize them to post on here but they were still huge so I'll leave them and give direct link.
Thanks

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[DLH]

So I had the great idea to drill a 3/8in where it was trying to split my nock and glue a dole back in. I think now my plan isn't as good as I had intially thought I think this might have screwed everything up. But here is a picture what do you all think?

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l491/dnl17694/DSCN18341.jpg

[JW_Halverson]

Go ahead and fill that hole with your dutchman's plug and give it a sinew wrap.  Should work just fine.  No sense giving up until it blows and you wake up in the hospital!

[DarkSoul]

Tiller wise it looks pretty good in that picture
The dark streak 2/3rds out in the left limb worries me a bit though...what is it?

That nock splitting out seems like a case of the string grooves not filed in correctly. You should have round the grooves more towards the back of the bow. It is now a very sharp transition from the groove to the back. So sharp in fact, that the string digs in.
That drilling looks awkward...Do you think a wooden plug will fit perfectly? Or will it leave gaps? I don't know what length the bow is, but I think piking it might be better...just cut off that rotten groove and file in a new and better side nock. Will cost you 3/4" per nock.

A small tip. When you take a picture of an object closeby, use the macro mode function of your camera. It's the button with the little flower on it,, on the main round button. It will focus much better then, because your current close-up pictures are all out of focus.
Also, take pictures outside the house, in broad daylight.

[randman]

In addition to what everybody else has said, I would suggest rounding all of your edges. It looks like all your edges are pretty sharply square which would cause it to lift splinters on an edge (which may be part of your nock problem). I'm with Dark Soul, cut that tip down below the nock split and try again rather than trying to plug it.