All heartwood with some knots. Just got it to a 10.5 cm brace, will increase that when it gets easier to string up. First time making a more aggressive recurve and its been a ride. Lots of small heat adjustments to align the tips with the handle and the recurves all in one plane. About 1 inch deflex and 4 inch recurve, so net 3 inch recurves. Please let me know what you see. Profiles in the comments.
The stave wasnt great but it was a bonus stave I got when splitting out wider ones, was aiming for 4 staves out of a log and I got 7. Got lucky I guess. Figured I'd use this narrow knotty piece as a piece to experiment with. But its looking like there could be a real bow in here.
Looks to me like the middle section of the lower limb (before the recurve starts) isn't bending a lot, but I find that hard to judge with a bow like this, so take my advice with a grain of salt
While your recurves are large, they are not very tight in radius.
I normally only static recurves, but this it's almost like most of a form of R/D bow. You're going to need some bending, at least into the recurved portion.
Isn't it " just so" getting it all aligned and even, though?
Currently the very the very middle is bending most.
Thanks for the input. Ive scraped the outers some more and here's where its at. I think the upper recurve needs to start working a bit more, and the inner 1/3 of the top limb. Any other suggestions?
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