I found a really nice quarter sawn white oak board and made a bow 73" long x 2 5/8" wide with a stiff handle. I used heat gun to reflex limbs but I cracked the bottom limb
with too much heat and it broke off after the 6 th shot. The top limb was just too pretty to waste so I made another bottom limb and scarfed it into the handle of the top limb, reflexed and tillered it to match the top limb. I had to reflex the new limb before I glued it to the upper limb so I could make the limbs line up, tricky stuff, but a piece of string and I eye balled it perfect!!! The scarf surfaces have to be flat and in the same plane as the limbs or they will look like they have propeller twist!!! Only power tools touched this bow!!! Table saw, jig saw, power hand planer, table belt sander, angle grinder and heat gun. Was trying for 75 lbs at 31 " but I think it's only 65 or 70 lbs, shoots fast!!!
I think 2 3/4" wide would have got me 75 lbs. I'll try to get some pics saturday at our trad shoot but the weather has been rain and snow mixed. cheers fiddler49
