Too much reflex

[Marc St Louis]

I would tiller as it is.  In my early years of heat-treating I would sometimes put in up to 10" of reflex.  It made life interesting

[BowEd]

I've planned on doing that kerf cut routine into the belly of the handle with overlay onto it sometime myself.I imagine it does'nt take too much of a kerf to get the deflex desired.A little in maybe 3 places instead of all in 1 place.

[DC]

Actually if I'd put a little more effort into bracing it when it had all it's reflex it would have turned out fine. It flipped in my hand the first couple of tries so I gave in. It's the bendiest Yew I've seen, very limp. I haven't chronoed it but I don't expect big numbers from it.

[Gordon]

High reflex is par for the course when making bows out of vine maple. You can see how I deal with it in a build along I did a few years back.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,53195.0.html

[DC]

Thanks Gordon, I remember that one

[Sagebrush]

DC I just got my 85 year old neighbor into bow building and he is now hooked.  He is climbing around in seviceberry thickets and cutting his birch trees.  At 73 you've got more wood in your future;)