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Offline New archer

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Help on my first bow
« on: November 17, 2016, 10:45:35 am »
This is my first bow. I was wondering how to fix the twist in the tip of the limb, and the curve in the limb. Can I leave the curve or will it ruin the bow? Any assistance would be appreciated thank you!

-Cary
« Last Edit: November 17, 2016, 11:26:43 am by New archer »
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Offline New archer

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2016, 11:04:25 am »
I'm trying to upload pictures, any help on that would also be appreciated  :)
« Last Edit: November 17, 2016, 11:31:24 am by New archer »
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Offline mikebarg

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2016, 11:19:59 am »
When you are typing your post click on attachments and other options. Then you will see the attach box. More than likely you will need to shrink your jpg files to get the file size below the 250KB limit. If you are using Windows you can you the Paint program to do this. Use the resize feature.

Offline New archer

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2016, 11:34:05 am »
Thank you Mikebarg for the help!
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Offline bubby

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2016, 12:37:33 pm »
First welcome to the site, now about the bow have you got it bending yet? If not i would tiller it till it is bending about a 15" draw and see where the string goes across the handle. Then if it needs some adjustments that can be done with dry heat or steam
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Offline DuBois

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2016, 07:21:57 pm »
Welcome!
Is the wood dried long? What kind of wood is it and how long?
I would probably try to heat the banana curve area and clamp it down with some leather padding under each contact area to get a little closer to where I want the string over the handle. That said, I spend way too much time tweaking on that sort of thing  :-[

Offline New archer

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Re: Help on my first bow
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2016, 09:00:33 pm »
Thanks Bubby, I might try that.

DuBois, I dried the stave for about 7 months. The type of wood is ash, and it's about 62" long
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