Beschreibung
Tillering is callled the targeted process of of removing wood from the belly to install a proper and even bend. There shall be no weak spots otherwise the bow will fail over time. When making a warbow you shouldn’t remove too much wood or your bow will turn out weak. With this bow it took 8 wood removals to install the desired tiller and drawweight. As I always take pictures I can show you that full process in sequences.
Furthermore with yew you never know. Pieces that look perfect sometimes suddenly fail, pieces that look doubtful at first sight make great bows. You never know – you gotta try. Then the staves often show surprises when roughing out the bow. Sometimes you don’t see anything from the outside, then encounter a bigger knot. Sometimes you expect a bigger knot, then hardly dont find anything beyond. Big knots often cause problems because they are harder than the surrounding material causing fractures in the surrounding wood. So I normally decide to take them out and/or replace them with a dowel of the same yew wood. This in my experience is fine up to 100# of drawweight. This one to my surprise showed a knot a little bigger than I would have liked and expected. However it was not huge and centered on the bow and not in the main bending zone. I replaced this one with a yew dowel from the same stave.
This bow has a length of 74.5″ nock to nock.
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