Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Stick Bender on March 14, 2017, 10:28:46 am
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This was a maple/sinew bow I made last year it was only my secound bow I had made, a week before hunting season it got fretts about mid limb it set on the wall of shame for the rest of the year & I pulled it down and started re tillering it easely got under the fretts they were pretty much on the surface the stats are 62 1/2 in ntn @29 in 40 lb how does it look now I was slightly canting the bow cant seem to get over canting muscle memory & my wife ran out of patients for pics & the high elbow ?
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Your fades are way too stiff, so the mids over-worked and fretted.
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Ok thanks Pearl I will work them in appreciate it :OK
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You are looking for a more elliptical tiller rather than round. Work the first 4-6" off each fade.
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The first sinew backed bow I ever made was a short osage/sinew bow that looked a lot like what you've got there. Mine was too stiff in the fades as well, so I tried to get it working more there and it ended up dropping the poundage way more than I wanted.
I am no expert when it comes to sinew. The one observation I've made though is that it's important to... take a little bit off, then bend.... Take a little bit off then bend... Take a little bit off then bend... until you get it close to where you want it. It's tedious, but it's way too easy to go from not bending enough to bending way too much.
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Your fades are stiff, but you could just say it's a short bow attached to extended fades and there's nothing wrong with that. This is better than bending too much in the fades. It's a nice looking bow.
Eric