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If you leave a wooden bow braced for a year or so it will take a permanent set. Do the internal stresses of a Perry reflex take a set and lose their effect after a while?
Quote from: DC on April 13, 2018, 11:29:45 amIf you leave a wooden bow braced for a year or so it will take a permanent set. Do the internal stresses of a Perry reflex take a set and lose their effect after a while?Do you mean just a blank sitting there? Or strung? I once years ago, took a R/D blank off the form, that had cracked at a belly corner going into the form. There were a couple things I wasn't happy with about it, actually, so it went into the "I'll come back to this later" bucket. I started making way more selfbows about then, and it sat there for 5-6 years, year round in the garage and never budged an inch.Eventually, I narrowed it and made a 25 lb bow for a young lady from it for her LARP hobby.