Well in the last 10 days, I tore the roof off my house and put a new one on. What a fiasco! Now I can get back to building this bow.
I got her to the short string. Here's the bow at first brace, keeping the brace height low.
I pulled the bow out to 15" and it seemed a little stiff on the left limb and both outter limbs.
After some scraping the left limb is starting to come around but still a bit stiff.
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Here, I noticed that the string alignment was off again. I think this will be a recurring theme with this bow. It's stubborn. It might be difficult to correct since the alignment issues are near the handle, and through the handle, rather then in the mid or outer limbs...
Anyway, back to the dry heat. I suspended a weight (5 gallon bucket full of salt), of the bow tip bringing it about 1/2 inch past my desired limb correction.
Applied a little olive oil to the limb,
And slowly heated the limb, keeping the heat gun 4 to 5 inches away from the bow and trying to avoid darkening the surface too much (especially since I'm near my finished limb thickness and I don't have too much 'gaming' room).
Took about 20 minutes to do the limb, and than I left it with the weight on overnight.
Gabe
