Is the early wood the weak link to cause set?

[Selfbowman]

Straighten from side to side So run off will be even.

[Selfbowman]

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[simk]

hey Arvin, glad to see you take the challenge. very interesting. huckleberry is a bit late to answer: it's your risk but also your profit in the end  nevertheless, my offer would have been that - in case you screw up this 100buck stave - I'd send you a pair of yew billets, if you pay for shipping 

[HH~]

Haha

I'll be yer Huck Arvin. That Super pyramid is shooting up a storm. Next time out I will run it against any selfbow for for a 30 shot round and put up a $100 and see who wants a run at the Super.

I know I tillered that bow starting at 20'' very very slowly and sanded it down alittle at time. then would leave it strung for an hour at brace height then give a few warm ups and took note of tiller changes.

When you get tips width to 1/4" its got to be dead nuts on string line up & down middle and limbs have to be timed up for how your gonna shoot it. 3 under on this Target Super. I compared it to your 40 you gifted me and had shoot off with yours. The profile is much slimmer from fade to tip. Which generally makes a much harder bow to shoot because of grip pressure and grip location. I fixed that by a way over sized grip with a thumb rest.  your really locked it when you grip and present bow to target and under draw tension. Line up that rear sight for target range and its like shooting my custom 5" 45ACP.

I will say it took a long time to get bow exactly where I wanted string line and tiller for this type of rig. Its a tad shorter than what I really wanted but this really sped the bow up. Very forgiving with arrow spines. I shot of some my friends heavily tapered 11/32nds shaft and 70grn points on its first event last year. Bow was lacking the positive tiller on bottom limb so I heated and flipped bottom a tad more and boy that fix made the difference. It ran 2nd Place in a big shoot in IN. was new so I was down on day one. But day two she shot the field in dirt! One arrow in shootoff cost me the Money. My fault now the bows.

She will debut 2021 at Pre Spring Fling in the reset tiller it has now. She will run with your best I am confident.

Yer friend

Shawn~

[Selfbowman]

Ok Shawn but you don’t have any worry’s about beating me in tournaments. I concede cause all I can do well is hit the earth a long ways out there. Built a test limb. The run off grain held fine in the test. But it took set. Being one limb in a vise makes for a hard tiller. Going to go for it but probably only once. Arvin

[Selfbowman]

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[sleek]

Looks like fairly even distribution of set, so the tiller is probably fine. Did you go a little wider on it than normal?

[Selfbowman]

Sleek 1-3/4 at fades. Should be able to get 2-1/8 on the stave. Continue ext week . Need to take the fishing shack back to the pole in Baffin Bay. We had to rebuild after hurricane.

[Selfbowman]

Ok fishing shack home.Back on bow. The back is flat and bow roughed out. To the heat bench.

[Selfbowman]

First to straighten the limb.

[Selfbowman]

Now to the caul.

[Bob Barnes]

It will be interesting to see what happens when the clamps come off... 

[Selfbowman]

Pic of edge straight grain osage.

[Selfbowman]

First time off the caul. That edge grain will pop once finish is on it. Not bad coming from a stave.

[Selfbowman]

I will say this you can get the back flat this way! Don’t know about set and such yet but we are going to find out. Arvin