Limb Twist Setup

[Gordon]

Here is my setup for correcting limb twist. Not very hitech but it works. Show us yours!

[steve b.]

Do you heat the limb?  how?

[osage outlaw]

I removed twist in a very similar way as your set up.  I have a golf club shaft that I use to hold up the end of the stave.  If the twist isn't to bad I remove it on my caul when I reflex it.

[Gordon]

Steve, I use a heat gun on the area to the right of the pipe wrench and weight.

[Thunder]

My set up is similar to Gordon's but I use a rachet strap on the end of the wrench conected to a heavy weight on the ground. That way I can crank or loosen it until the limb is where I want it.

[sleek]

I use a caul, c clamps and wedges with a heat gun.

[Jim Davis]

I clamp the handle or limb on edge in my bench vise, put a big monkey wrench out past the part of the limb I want to correct. The wrench handle sticks out over  the bench and I lean a ruler against  it so  I can gauge the movement. Sometimes I add weight to the wrench handle as needed.

Jim Davis

[bushboy]

Here's mine.my belt sander is dead so now it's a weight!lol!

[DC]

I use the same setup but I use a strap wrench(like an oil filter wrench) to avoid marking the bow.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Nice Gordon! Mine looks about the same. I use my bar clamps on the limbs so I can add weight out at their ends and get more torque on the twist. Bowyers sure are a resourceful group.

[missilemaster]

Great looking setup there Gordon. Hope you dont get the heat gun too close to that can of acetone!

[Gordon]

Hope you dont get the heat gun too close to that can of acetone!

No worries, that can is empty 

[lebhuntfish]

I use something similar. Most of the time a big crescent wrench with thick leather against the bow. Then a shopping bag tied to the hole on the end. Then I just add what ever is laying close to me that has some weight to it to the bag until I get the bend I want. Looks like the most redneck thing you ever seen. Patrick 

[simson]

I use pretty much the same setup, different weight, differnt clamps and no can haha. Instead of the can I have meanwhile an adjustable stick.

[vinemaplebows]

Is that the billets I sent you?