How To Floor Tiller A Bow

Hang the bow up horizontally on a branch or piece of scrap wood by the handhold.

How to floor tiller a bow.

Understanding tiller most shooters regardless of preferred shooting style draw a traditional bow at a more severe angle on the bottom than on the top. Tillering a wonky bow to first brace. It is left to sit until the wood of the bow is flexible enough to bend in that direction without the sting being so taught. Follow me as i build a hazel longbow.

This must be done on dry wood or it will check. In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick. Now not only do you want each limb to bend evenly throughout its length you also want each limb to bend exactly the same amount a mirror image of each other. Today we ll go through most the tillering process.

How to make a bow part 3 roughing out and floor tillering duration. The string is then stretched to fit into one notch on the tiller stick. In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick. I almost always get my bows to floor tiller and then use a heatgun and caul to correct side to side deviations and also induce about 1 1 2 of reflex in the profile.

If you are correcting wet wood it is best to use steam and the technique dean lays out in hob. Noble savage outdoors 256 views. We also had to do a little. Basically the bottom limb is drawn a bit farther than the top limb each shot and the top limb gets a head start on the bottom limb upon release.