Tillering a Natural Reflex D flex

Started by Ineseno, November 05, 2025, 05:57:54 PM

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Ineseno

I am working on a very interesting piece of wood.
Scrub Oak
65"
Ive never made a bow of this design before. Should the limbs be perfectly straight at brace?
It had a lot of natural reflex, but not even from limb to limb, and one side had d flex at the handle. So I built a jig to create symmetry. last pick on the tiller would be about brace. Thoughts?


Pat B

From what I can see...shorten your tiller string and don't touch the center 1/3 of the bow.
 That said, I have a hard time visualizing the tiller of a R/D style bow.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!
TGMM Family of the Bow

dbeaver

Pretty straight from where you deflexed until the tips is good for the R/D bows. Keep the last 6 inches nice and stiff on either end tiller slowly from the mid limb.  Take extra width out of the tips when its mostly tillered out but not enough to make them start bending too much, can also trap the back as the limb tapers to the tip to get some more extra weight off and get that bow snappy.  Never worked with scrub oak before so take that into account.

Ineseno

Gents,
Thank you!
I'll post more when I have made some progress.


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