hello all, working on a TD recurve and in the process of getting the limbs to line up and string to track straight along center line. so far one of the limbs tracks well and the other is slightly off center, but not too bad.
while at brace the limb tip points slightly right but when I use the tillering stick and the bow is drawn the tip points in the opposite direction, towards the left slightly. in other words it seems to have like a double twist for lack of a better description. the weak/strong side seem to switch as the bow is drawn. I haven't seen this before on other bows I've made, recurve or LB.
any thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks, Mike
I have a bow that twists on the bottom limb if I pull it back and then un-pull-it-back, but when I shoot it, it lines up just fine. It could be that I'm torquing the handle when I pull it back. And maybe you're torquing the handle somehow.
I would think that when you shoot it, and it finds its own way, that's where the string is truly centered (or not), and you should make adjustments based on that.
So I'd shoot it, and see where the string lines up after the shot, and make small adjustments until it's tracking down the middle.