The story continues: This bow, originally sort of test project, has been shot few hundreds of arrows now. It worked fine but, because of plenty of deflex, it was lazy. Then I decided to continue and test my skills to convert it to takedown (carriage) bow. I glued 5 mm thick Osage slice on the handle back (10,5 cm), thinned the ends of the slice down to 1 mm and left the middle to 5 mm. After cutting the bow I fitted the take down sleeves and those slightly conical Osage pieces added some reflex at the handle area straightening the bow. Test shooting told that this added reflex also added plenty of pounds to the bow; at least I had to use more power to draw it to my anchor point compared to my other bows. Iīll measure the poundage later. Unfortunately I "succeeded" also to add some some bend to right, wrong direction for right handed shooting forcing the arrow pass too much left from center. Now the bow is clamped to table in my workshop until my next visit to my cottage to force the side bend away.
