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Offline Knoll

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Non bending tips?
« on: September 24, 2014, 12:22:28 am »
About to begin tillering latest effort.  Objective is 43-47# @ 26".  Hard Maple board, 66" ntn, 1 3/4" width limbs tapering evenly to 1/2" tips.  Riser is 8" with fades tapering into limb thickness.  At the tips, am doing glue-on recurve.
"Recurve" block was 6" long and currently its thickness tapers from 0.69" at nock to 0.60" approx 6" into limb.
Not at all sure what to do with the recurve portion.  Should I consider the entire 6" length to be non bending and basically ignore that portion while tillering?
« Last Edit: September 26, 2014, 07:48:53 pm by Knoll »
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Re: Non bending tips?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2014, 12:40:51 am »
You will have to keep the entire recurve back past the tip splice stiff. Also, by adding two 6" recurves to a 66" your will be well over 70"n/n.
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Re: Non bending tips?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2014, 08:10:28 am »
What sort of glue joint are you going with?

Offline Knoll

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Re: Non bending tips?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2014, 10:24:24 am »
66" ntn measured w/ tips glued on.  Thanks for advice.
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857