Floor Tillering & First Brace on Golden Chain Recurve - Selfbow Build #2

Building a Golden Chain (Laburnum) recurve selfbow in silence — (Shaping the limbs, Floor tillering and bracing the bow for the first time). Part [2] of 5. Receive the free recurve template in your inbox: https://jaap-bolt.mykajabi.com/Laburn... ▼ Full series — new episode every week: Part 1 — Rough shape & Steam Bending    • Building a Golden Chain Recurve Selfbow (L...   Part 2 — Shaping, floor tillering, first brace Part 3 — Heat treatment, Repairs, Full tillering (Releases 11th of July) Part 4 — String making, Inlay work, Test shooting (Releases 18th of July) Part 5 — Finishing, Leather handle making, final product (Releases 25th of July) Laburnum — also called golden chain tree — is one of Europe's classic bow woods, used for bow making since, at least, the Middle Ages. It's seen in medieval artwork and was used by the Burgundians as a wood for hunting bows. A selfbow is made from a single stave with no laminations; a recurve curls the limb tips away from the archer for more stored energy. In this build I'm steam-bending those recurves into the wood. In this part of the series I ''floor tiller'' the bow and later tiller it with a long string, up to a point where I can safely brace it for the first time. The so-called ''floor tiller'' is done to get a rough feel of the bow's strength and if the limbs are equal in strenght. Long string tillering is done to tiller the bow to at least brace height. In my opinion a bow's tiller should be around 90% there before the bow is braced. The rest of the tillering process should mostly be fine tuning and finding out if the wood is up to the required task... For more of my work find me here: Facebook: @BoltBows Instagram: @BoltBows #selfbow #bowyer #primitivearchery #goldenchain #woodworkingasmr