Osage selfbow Critique my tiller please

[kodiakkid]

Here is a near completion osage selfbow. Started out to be a 66" bow but wound up to light. It is now a 62" bow tip to tip. I used a straight taper from 1 1/2" to 1/2" tips. I think the straight taper is what caused it to be to light. I shortened it and per Pat B.'s advice heated in some slight recurves in an attempt to gain pounds. (my first attempt at bending the tips)Bow was 40lbs at 66" length. Now with the recurves and shorter length it is 48lbs at my 27" draw. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Dano]

She looks good, how's it shoot? that'll tell ya if ya done good.

[D. Devall]

looks great to me.

[broketooth]

wow paul that looks great  

[George Tsoukalas]

Very nicely done! Jawge

[kodiakkid]

Shoots pretty good. Has a little handshock but I haven't narrowed the tips down yet. They're still about 5/8" wide. It should be alot better after I get em narrowed to about 3/8" Thanks for the compliments!!!

[bigcountry]

Looks real nice.  Looks to have a slight flat spot on the upper limb about 10" out of the fades.  But could be my eyes playing tricks on me.  I like it.

[KENDALL TECHAU]

Good job!  

[Frank]

Oh yeh.....tiller looks good to me.

[Hermann From Bavaria]

wonderful bow kodiak! tiller looks good!

really nice!

[Shaun]

Good one! That bow looks like it will hunt to me.

I like to use a limb layout that stays full width for 1/3 to 1/2 of the distance from fade to tip, THEN taper to the tips. This will give you more of an elliptical arc - less bend near the handle.

It looks like you have a slight hinge then a flat spot in the upper limb just above the fade. One method I use to double check my tiller is to trace the limb on a big piece of paper and then flip the bow around and see if the other limb matches the tracing.

Most excellent full draw pictures! Many folks show a full draw of about 24" and it is tough to see the real working tiller. You have that bow pulled all the way.

[sulphur]

i'd say the tiller is spot on.  if you haven't shot it a whole lot yet your could temper the belly and add a bit of reflex while still hot.  that should give it about 4 lbs more.  but i got to say it looks pretty nice.  I would be temped not to mess with it at all.

[ron w]

Looks good to me!