How To Floor Tiller A Bow

Place the end of the tiller stick the side where there are no notches on the arrow notch or on the rest of the bow.

How to floor tiller a bow.

Understanding tiller most shooters regardless of preferred shooting style draw a traditional bow at a more severe angle on the bottom than on the top. Yesterday we got this bow roughed out and nearly to the floor tillering stage. Follow me as i build a hazel longbow. The string is then stretched to fit into one notch on the tiller stick.

How to make a bow part 3 roughing out and floor tillering duration. In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick. In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick. We also had to do a little.

Hang the bow up horizontally on a branch or piece of scrap wood by the handhold. Now not only do you want each limb to bend evenly throughout its length you also want each limb to bend exactly the same amount a mirror image of each other. Noble savage outdoors 256 views. Tillering a wonky bow to first brace.

Now pull down a few inches on the string while observing how the limbs bend. I almost always get my bows to floor tiller and then use a heatgun and caul to correct side to side deviations and also induce about 1 1 2 of reflex in the profile. If you are correcting wet wood it is best to use steam and the technique dean lays out in hob. It is left to sit until the wood of the bow is flexible enough to bend in that direction without the sting being so taught.