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Someone once explained this process to me as being similar to touching your toes – if someone came up behind you and pushed you down suddenly and quickly you would pull all the muscles and tendons in your legs. Here Woodland Ways Instructor Danny assesses a stiff section through the left limb of an Elm long bow.
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This is where the rope and pulley tiller system plays its part as you can gently draw and release the bow progressively drawing it further down the board whilst already standing in a position that allows you to assess how the bow limbs are bending. Therefore, KEEPING it under those tensions for longer than the fraction of a second it takes to release the arrow is not a good thing for the general health and well-being of the bow. It stands to reason that the timber in the bow you are shooting is under the greatest forces of compression and tension at its full draw. If you think about it leaving a bow drawn on a tiller board is a completely unnatural position for the bow to remain in. To me this way of tillering a bow is far more sympathetic to the bow as ordinarily you would stretch the bow to a certain draw length and hook the bow string into a notch on the static tillering board before standing back to scratch your head and ‘um’ and ‘errr’ appreciatively for several minutes whilst you figure out which bits are bending and which bits are still way too stiff. The idea here is not a new one and was first brought to our attention several years ago on one of our Bow Making Weekend courses by guest instructor Gary Scott of Christendom Bows.
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This blog is meant to serve as a quick how to for any budding bowyers or anyone who has made plenty of bows but always tillered on a fixed notch tillering stick.