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.

How to floor tiller a bow.

Now pull down a few inches on the string while observing how the limbs bend. Basically the bottom limb is drawn a bit farther than the top limb each shot and the top limb gets a head start on the bottom limb upon release. We also had to do a little. Follow me as i build a hazel longbow.

Tillering a wonky bow to first brace. 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. Yesterday we got this bow roughed out and nearly to the floor tillering stage. Today we ll go through most the tillering process.

In this video i describe how to tiller a self bow with a simple tool called a tillering stick. 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. 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.

Hang the bow up horizontally on a branch or piece of scrap wood by the handhold. 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. 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.