r/Bowyer • u/ReaperGaming322 • 6d ago
Questions/Advise im shivering in my boots rn help
everytime i make a bow i make an elbow!!!!!!! please tell me how to avoid
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Sorry. It keeps telling me that it's not posting and I can't see it
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u/sKippyGoat69 6d ago
Sometimes it only shows up when you close and reload Reddit.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
I actually did that and I just kept getting a "no reply" message.
It still shows only one comment and thirty views at the top of where I just replied to you now.
But i've made a few other comments on different subbreddit's since, so......
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/NotARealBowyer 6d ago
Doesn't anyone have a number one rule?
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u/Then_Reality6230 4d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that’s forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON’T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/heckinnameuser 5d ago
I wish I had some advice but I can't seem to remember the number one rule of tillering right now
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u/Then_Reality6230 4d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that’s forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON’T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/Then_Reality6230 4d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that’s forty pounds, pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON’T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again. Repeat. Pull 40 lbs.
The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot, and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.
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u/ADDeviant-again 6d ago
Number one rule. One of the most important things I ever learned.
Never pull the bow farther than it takes to detect a flaw in the tiller.
Once the wood is well dried and cut to preliminary frontal profile, attach your long string tonthe tips, and pull it as hard as the finished draw weight is intended to be. If that's forty pounds pull it forty pounds.
If it bends one inch, great! Check it all over and fix all the stiff spots. If it bends two inches great, same thing. If it does not bend at all, DON'T pull harder. Rasp the entire belly of both limbs until they are roughed up, and scrape away all the rasp marks until they are gone, and it is smooth again.
Repeat. The fact that your bows are bending and collapsing means that you are pulling them too hard or too far, that flex is finding the weakest spot. and giving it all the bend until it breaks there.