From: tunamanb52
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Date: 05-Mar-15 |
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I have a 68" wood lam no glass longbow, It has a 3 1/8" string follow. I don't know if it was made that way or became a set. It shoot nice, but a little slow. What do you think ?
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 05-Mar-15 |
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My guess is it wasn't made that way, but rather was glued up straight or with some glued in reflex, and the string follow is due to set. Can you tell what kind of wood it's made of? Or who made it?
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From: pghrich
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Date: 05-Mar-15 |
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All my all hickory bows develope set after shooting around 100 arrows, as long as i take it down after shooting everytime it does not get any worst, sure makes for a smooth shooting bow. Rich pyle
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From: Kelly
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Date: 05-Mar-15 |
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I have one of Jay's all Yew selfbows made in 1998, 68", 41# @ 28". Bought it from the original owner, so I thought, and it showed more set just to the top limb when I received itseveral years ago. I've never shot the bow, just strung it up, drew it a few times(very smooth), then immediately unstrung it. Don't know if I did it upon drawing the bow or it was that way but the string follow of the upper limb is very close to what you mention and most of it occurs from mid limb to tip. Bottom limb is normal-straight. When laid on a flat surface the handle section and bottom limb pretty much touch the flat surface. Don't know what is normal or not but mine doesn't look right unstrung.
Know that the bottom limb is supposed to be stiffer so maybe the top limb needs to be this way. It doesn't look that bad when braced.
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From: pghrich
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Date: 05-Mar-15 |
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When first stringing up a selfbow (if its not been used for a while) one should carefully and slowly draw the bow a little at a time to exercise the wood sort of speak, and then come to full draw. Rich pyle
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