ERC Takedown - (new tiller)

[duffontap]

Beautiful bow.  Great idea with the skins.  I have one of those sleeves that I've been avoiding for a couple years now.  Maybe it's time to get after that.

       J. D.

[Stickhead]

After looking at the pics I posted and reading advice from y'all, I decided to retiller the bottom limb just a tad.  I got it bending a little nicer, and I think I'm done this time.  (At least for the moment.)  It still has decent draw weight (around 53# at 26"), so I'm happy.  It's got around 1 1/2" of set, which I can live with.  I didn't want to tempt the ERC gods by doing any heat treatment or bending.

Saw Filer - my experience with ERC jives with what I've read.  Namely, that sapwood is better in tension, but takes more set.  And the heartwood is good in compression, but brittle.

Here are a couple of new tiller pics: 

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[venisonburger]

I like it alot, attractive, functional, all in one takedown package.
VB

[Justin Snyder]

The tiller looks much nicer.  That is truly a beautiful bow. Justin

[FlintWalker]

I really like that bow...A LOT!!  I've seen and cut lots of cedar, it makes super good fence posts. All the old men around here that whittle, use cedar. It whittles good if it's clear heart wood. Just because i've seen and used so much of it (not for bows), I know it's very light and stiff. I bet it shoots pretty hard since it can't have much mass weight in the limbs.  I hope it holds up for you and you get to try it out this fall on some game.
How many bows have you seen that look good and smell good?

[OldBow]

You win  the  CBOM (Creative BOM) for this one.  Great takedown. Tips, skin design make this one of the most distinctive bows I've seen for awhile. Looking forward to see how this one stacks up for Self Bow of the Month.