Let's get this fired up!

Did a little forum browsing today after quite the hiatus...

It's too stinking cold here to get fired up. We have over 12 in. snow blazing 7 degrees.and weren't used to it 

Quote from: Crooked Stic on Today at 04:43:29 AMIt's too stinking cold here to get fired up. We have over 12 in. snow blazing 7 degrees.and weren't used to it 

Ya you guys got a hell of a winter storm back east and it went clear to Texas in the south. it's going to hit 50 degrees this afternoon here today in Oregon. but it has been getting into the high 20's at night this last week. Next week back to rain again for us.

I'm just finishing up a set of 70# ILF limbs that has a twill carbon back. i used it right over the .040 glass and thought it would bump the poundage up a bit, but it didn't effect the draw weight at all compared to just using the same stack with .040 glass.      That sure seemed strange to me.   I ended up with 65# instead of 70#.

This happened two days ago but there was no post for it yet, ha.

Blew up a nice wonky character stave out of hawthorn. It was doing really well with tillering and bending mid limb nicely with very different rates of reflex per limb so it was tricky but going well.

was pulling under 50 at the 20 inch mark and i was interested in a 60 pound bow so i was routinely tillering down those last inches of draw. Well i was working the limbs between tillering and checking progress and BAM one of the pin knots on the front was in a cluster of three and they were about 2 inches off the fades.  Just a bit too stiff yet to bend there and it split the limb from fade to a few inches under the tip.