Bowswap ILF Build-along - All Done!

[BK in TEXAS]

OK so I ran into a little problem....see that nice little bolt & bezel?

Apparently once I added the .05" brown glass overlay it was enough to make the damn bolt too short for the threads to catch. Now I gotta find a bolt with the right threads 1/8" longer....grrrrr. I managed to temporarily mount it with a steel washer at least so i can keep working on it.
I also noticed that I could have put my overlay "bump" closer to the limb bolt and closed that gap a little. Oh well...live & learn.

[BK in TEXAS]

Another pic of the overlays


Tips....shaped with disc sander, roughed out with chainsaw file...still need finish sanding


Limbs on riser

[BK in TEXAS]

Here is where I ran into a little problem, or I $#$@$&!% up, however you wanna look at it.

Somehow I managed to miss truing (squaring) one of the rocker wedges. Probably because I was doing 2 bows at once and taking pictures, but still.....one side is about .04 thicker than the other. That's a LOT! It wasn't really noticeable unbraced I suppose because the limb was resting more on the dovetail bushing than the limb itself. Once braced, the limb is going to lean, and most likely twist. Had I mic'd both edges of both rockers I would have caught it. Let that be a lesson to me


Since I needed to sand out at least .04" from one side to fix it, I had to apply a belly overlay.


All in all this was a major pain in the @$$ to fix, and a lesson I won't soon forget.

[BK in TEXAS]

Back to normalcy.......
filing string groove. Just deep enough to keep the string


On the tiller tree

[4nolz]

how do you secure the riser in your tiller tree?

[MOUNTER]

That looks sweet! Are you using a T.W.? Hooks are holding up really well!

[BK in TEXAS]

[BK in TEXAS]

[angelstaff]

That being fabulous, and the drawing looks very soft, I want to see it finished
Angel

[BK in TEXAS]

Allright, so I haven't really been taking many pictures here near the end since it's been pretty much just tillering it & finishing it up like a normal bow at this point. The first set of limbs (mine) have a slight twist right at the tips, so when I correct them I'll take some pictures and edit this post with the description. Right now I just want to get Mike's done before hunting starts.