Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: hector orlando on January 20, 2013, 08:18:26 pm
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hello fellas,i have being reading this forum for a few months now,now i would like to ask a question,posting pictures of this stave ,yew that i hava being working on,is a 61'' ttt 2''0n the fades,tapered to 1.25 . 11''before the tip where i would like to bend it for a static recurve as you can see in the picture is got a really bad propeller twist from ttt .the ? is do I heat the whole bow on my form to get the twist off and later on steam the tips ?or do ever(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/068_zps7ec62e43.jpg)ything at once with dry heat?thanks for all your help i (http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/[IMG]http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/071_zps9e3f6e99.jpg)/bowhunter1001/072_zps5167ffce.jpg[/IMG](http://[IMG]http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/075_zps97bfd2fa.jpg)/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/074_zps17392177.jpg[/IMG](http://[IMG]http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/082_zpsdb856e2e.jpg)/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/078_zps1fbc37b3.jpg[/IMG](http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/068_zps7ec62e43.jpg)(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a486/bowhunter1001/081_zps36bcc2a6.jpg)
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Are you sure that is yew? It doesn't look like it to me.
It probably doesn't matter which you do first but I think I'd bend the tips first then work on the twist to help align the recurves. That really isn't a bad twist but with recurves everything need to line up so the bow doesn't turn inside out on you.
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pat b. I had put some more pictures on the thread that reads more pictures of yew because I'm new to photobucket too and i did not know how to add those pictures to my original thread. :-[ new to most everything but with help i will get better so this stave has being decrown and sap wood taken out