Need guidance with this bow project

Started by Flyboy718, December 22, 2013, 02:50:00 PM

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Flyboy718

This is a winged elm bow that was a small straight sapling tree growing in an abandoned field.  I been working on this one on and off for about a year.  Got just a little limb twist and one limb is more deflexed than the other too.  I left the handle area 'round' the original sapling with the bark stripped...ideas on how to finish handle out it does not feel good in hand at all, feels like the bow wants to turn in my hand.  The bow is at floor tiller.
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wakolbinger

Twist looks fairly mild. You feel a twist like that mostly at floor tiller and when bracing the bow but I find it doubtful you will feel it much in draw. The option to fix it would be to heat the bow and force it straight on a mold or workbench with heat.

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