mahogany for a bow wood

[macbow]

May be illusion but the left limb might be a little stiffer.
I'd continue taking some wood off the belly of each till you can get,a,short,string on it.

Then you can use a gizmo type tool to,see where it is bending.

[CalebNH00]

double post

[CalebNH00]

Macbow: Yeah, the left one is the bottom , so to acquire positive tiller I left it like that

[CalebNH00]

I'm going to shave the limbs down in width to about  an inch and a half, then I will post some pics of it later.

[CalebNH00]

I thinned the limbs down to 1 1/2", and managed to get it on a low brace(about 1").


Then I continued to tiller, took the bottom limb down a little. I can now see in the pic that I need to get mid-limb on the right moving. I also (although not as much) need the mid limb to move more on the left.

[CalebNH00]

A couple rasp strokes later...

I'm going to try a higher brace now, so we can see what it looks like. getting close   :D !

[CalebNH00]

 :(   It broke on a previously hinged area that I thought i had fixed. Apparently it didn't want to go to full brace   . at least i still have lots of tip overlays and maybe an arrow or two.

[CalebNH00]

Do you think i could glue the pieces down, or is it gone?

[vanillabear?]

[CalebNH00]

what do you mean "doomed"?

[Roy from Pa]

I don't think you are listening to us, Mahogany is not good bow or arrow wood.

[CalebNH00]

OH! I thought that there was a design flaw. I got that this was a bad wood to begin with, I was just getting some practice.

[vanillabear?]