Primitive Archer

I use Imgur, a photo storage site. It's free and it gives you options for sizing photos for different applications.

You don't have to resize pictures when you link to them on Imgur, the forum software automatically resizes the image to fit the forum layout. As a bonus, you can click on the resized picture to see it full size. The tiny pictures the forum allows for upload really are archaic at this point and pretty useless for seeing details of the bow in. Technology has moved very far along from a 640x480 image being considered 'large'. It is basically just a large thumbnail in today's world.


Mark

yep! Tips are 13mm, the rest of the bow is mostly about 7mm. It doesn't stack at all, very smooth!

Ya when I put reflex mostly in the last 10” of the limb it requires more thickness toward the tips to hold the reflex. It also makes the need for either thicker limbs at fades to about ten inches out or parallel out 8-10”. The bow probably does not stack at all. I like it.

 I think the main problem you were having was the low moisture content, like Cord mentioned. Yew really doesn't like low moisture content, becomes very susceptible to tension breaks.  I won't try stressing the limbs for at least a week after exposing the limbs to heat bending or corrections. Unless you live in a very arid climate I doubt you will have any troubles with unbacked yew, if its a good stave, and you follow the grain, compensate for any knots.

In future, non sinewed bows if they are going to be used for hunting, I would recommend that you back them with rawhide. It gives you a little more protection in tension, but more importantly it will help stop the sapwood from getting dinged, in the wild.

Here's a shot before I retinkered with it. You'll see it's already slightly whip tillered here. At this stage it had already been shot in over 2000x and had only 1" of follow, which I would call great.