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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Woody Knot on January 15, 2015, 07:28:51 pm

Title: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: Woody Knot on January 15, 2015, 07:28:51 pm

Hi, all .. another new member arrives...
   I am Building a tillering tree on shed wall .. pulley, rope etc, and am wondering how the rest/saddle where the bow handle sits, should be shaped.
Browsing through different tree postings I see Flat ones, and rounded ones and others clamped on top while others not.
 Is this important or just a matter of taste?

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: wizardgoat on January 15, 2015, 08:48:14 pm

Mine is the butt end of a 2x4. Flat is a lot easier, on my bendy handle bows, after brace I use a little rounded wedge of wood to see the movement better

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: Pat B on January 15, 2015, 11:53:18 pm

Mine is the butt end of a 2x4, also.

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: NeolithicMan on January 15, 2015, 11:59:45 pm

Welcom to PA!!!! I use some birch blocks screwed into on of my fences 4X4 with a peice of scrap leather to pad and grip the bow. I also have a tillering stick for when the weather is nasty to tiller inside. its an old armoir frame that turned out to be solid walnut, put a peice of scrap leather on the top of that too.

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: Woody Knot on January 16, 2015, 03:51:34 pm

THanks for the useful answers, now to built the tiller  :P

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: Del the cat on January 16, 2015, 05:48:08 pm

I have it rounded so it's free to rock back and forth. IMO it gives a better indication of how it will sit in the hand.
I also take care to support it where the hand will bear on it, and to pull the string from where the fingers will draw.
In other words I try to simulate the actual use of the bow.
Del

Title: Re: Question ..Rest on the tillering tree
Post by: JoJoDapyro on January 16, 2015, 07:15:38 pm

I used a 2x4. Then moved on to a ratchet strap. Seems to work a bit better.