2022 what did you do today?

[Jeff tech]

Thank you Kenny. It's a Wing Presentation II. Pretty rough when I got it. JF

[kennym]

Ahhh !! Glad you are redoing it! I'd like to have a Wing bow just to say I had one but it wouldn't get enough attention from me.  I try to shoot the same bow all year!

[Jeff tech]

This is for a local Trad Guy in our club

[Flem]

Nice job Jeff, looks beautiful

Did you stain the riser? Looks a lot lighter in the before pic.

[Jeff tech]

No no stain. It just looks darker from the original picture. The original clear coat was cracked up so much. Outside. It looks much different in the sun.

[Jeff tech]

Well I went to fit this bow for a string. I'm going to stop myself right there. That was a total waste of my time refinishing this bow. Guy said it shot great. It never had a string on it when I got it and I never seen it strung. Until now. I talked to the guy. He's not very upset. He says don't worry about it. Just make it right with him on my time. What a disappointment. It's the only  bow I've ever refinished that. I never strung. Lessons learn

[Longcruise]

Well I went to fit this bow for a string. I'm going to stop myself right there. That was a total waste of my time refinishing this bow. Guy said it shot great. It never had a string on it when I got it and I never seen it strung. Until now. I talked to the guy. He's not very upset. He says don't worry about it. Just make it right with him on my time. What a disappointment. It's the only  bow I've ever refinished that. I never strung. Lessons learn

Hard to tell in the photo on the phone,  but the tiller looks crazy 🤪

[B-JS]

 
Thats some serious negative Tiller. 

[mmattockx]

Holy cow, that is one screwed up bow.


Mark

[Jeff tech]

Yeah that sucker must be an inch and a half off and then some. Man, that sucks. I wish I'd had checked that f***** when I got it. Put a string on it just to be sure but I took his word for it. Yeah yeah s***

[Jeff tech]

She's going to blow. It would be probably the next time it was shot. The guy I was doing it for said it was shooting great. Just like an old race, motor runs the best right before it blows. This blows. 😒

[Mad Max]

She's going to blow. He would be probably the next time it was shot. The guy I was doing it for said it was shooting great. Just like an old race, motor runs the best right before it blows. This blows. 😒

What # is it Jeff?

[Jeff tech]

Here's the original markings and decal..

[Jeff tech]

Tap too quick.Didn't get the picture.
At a lower brace height 8 to 8 and 1/2  the bottom Limb is about a half an inch softer.or so. This one's tough to check and has very short working limbs. Very long riser, very thin fadeouts Maybe it was made that way. I don't know. I just painted it lol. And little body work. JF

[Kirkll]

She's going to blow. It would be probably the next time it was shot. The guy I was doing it for said it was shooting great. Just like an old race, motor runs the best right before it blows. This blows. 😒

I'm curious why you say she is going to blow?  Is there limb damage you didn't see? 

The reason i ask is i've seen old bows that spent years in a barrel , or leaning up in a corner sitting on the limb tip deform a lower limb. If the limbs are stillstructurally sound, you may find with a little creative tillering, you could still save it....    .02 cents worth ........................Kirk

[Jeff tech]

No, no visible damage. Just a lot of heavy bending real tight on the lower limb. That makes me think it's not going to last long. Or somebody strung it by stepping through too many times. It may hold up. Evidently he shot it that way. So that's why he's going to get it

[B-JS]

Got myself a lifetime supply of my favourite String Material. 

[Kirkll]

I've got another "Bare Foot" bow going here with a "B+" 21.5" riser. This one was built from HD ChromaPly material, and my standard footing jig wouldn't work. So I had to improvise and do some hand work to get the footing line in this riser block.

She's 66" long and will end up in the low 40s at 31" draw. She's a bit heavy, and a bit out of tiller in these photos. But nothing some fine tuning won't cure.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/njpojsn6sSagjLdNA

Kirk

[mmattockx]

She's a bit heavy, and a bit out of tiller in these photos. But nothing some fine tuning won't cure.

Nice looking riser. Can you explain where you see the tiller being off? I assume you will just do some sanding on the limb sides to fine tune the weight and tiller?


Mark

[Kirkll]

The tiller isn't off by much in these photos, but the draw weight is 5 pounds over my finished product, and i like it like that.

During the course of bringing the draw weight down and balancing the limbs i work both the sides and sand the glass belly and back. For this lower draw weight bow my .040 glass is a bit on the heavy side, and i will end up with about .035 belly and back and that will lighten the limb mass. The draw weight difference on sanding glass is about 1#  for every .002 of glass sanded. So if i slowly bring it down .010 i'll be really close to my desired draw weight.

Once i drop below 36# draw weight I could easily use .030 glass for strength, but i don't do it. You loose a lot of limb stability with thinner glass. .035 is about as far as i want to go on those light draw weight limbs.....

With recurve limbs with an aggressive hook like i use on my SS design, there is a magic number on limb thickness i must maintain to keep those limbs from going sideways too easily. Right at the base of the hook if that limb thickness gets below .190 the limbs start getting seriously squirrely. So i use a par instead of my typical .001 taper to get a thicker limb out there where i need it. On a 25-30# set of limbs i'll use a reverse taper to thicken that section at the base of the hook....... Yes.... i'm loosing performance, but a with a target weight recurve stability trumps arrow speed.      Kirk