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Title: Limb tips
Post by: Dannon on October 13, 2018, 10:00:16 PM

Do you guys have any tips or tricks to get your limb tips the same? I’m working on a bow now and got the tips glued on today and i started shaping them this afternoon. I just can’t seem to get them to look exactly alike.

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Dazzad on October 14, 2018, 09:16:26 AM

Dannon- i wouldn't be too preoccupied about it. You do want them to be a similar size from a weight point of view, but if the string grooves are of uniform depth and angle, and each limb tip is shaped and finished well in it's own right...........get on with it and start shooting!

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Crooked Stic on October 14, 2018, 09:57:02 AM

If you do them by hand they will very seldom be PERFECTLY  the same. I know mine are not. But never had complaints about that.

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Bowjunkie on October 14, 2018, 03:41:13 PM

No secrets. Just practice, experience, attention to detail, and always trying to make each one better than the last.

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 14, 2018, 05:21:02 PM

Lay them out with a pencil...

Then get close to line with belt sander then use 220 grit sandpaper by hand.

Go slow.

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Dannon on October 14, 2018, 09:07:09 PM

Thanks guys , I’m getting them close! :shaka:

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: monterey on October 14, 2018, 09:36:20 PM

It's hard to look at them both at the same time.  Nobody will notice. :)

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: C. Johnson on October 17, 2018, 09:46:36 AM

Yeah, I lay mine out with a pencil and shape by hand.  They're never *exactly* the same.  Doesn't seem to hurt anything and the only person it bothers is me....  ;)

Title: Re: Limb tips
Post by: Flem on October 17, 2018, 10:27:02 PM

I do the top, pointy and the bottom, bulbous. Don't have to worry about symmetry that way.