comments on tiller please

[Echatham]

i have been looking at it too long, and some of the character in the stave plays tricks on me.  if anyone sees any trouble spots please let me know,  and does it need to bend more out of the fades ya think?  im low on weight so i want to milk every # out of it that i can. minimal wood removal from here if possible.  and do you guys think i could gain a couple pounds by flipping the tips a little harder?  don't want a recurve, but i think i can put a little more bend in them.







top limb is left on the unbraced pic, and on the right on the other two.

[Pat B]

Looks like you need to bring the bend back towards the handle a little.

[Art B]

Working those inner limbs now with drop weight dramatically.

What method did you use to straighten your bow, steam or dry heat?

If steamed, you can flip the tips with heat, forcing more work inner limb, which will raise poundage. Heat tempering the belly even more so........Art B

[John Scifres]

I'd work the inner third on that left until it catches up with the right in that area.  If that makes it substantially weaker than the right, then it does.  Tiller is everything.  Take your medicine and get it tillered correctly. Then think about weight.  It takes a lot of bows before you can hit your weight consistently and it is very common to miss weight on the first few.

[Echatham]

Art, just dry heat. John, thats a bitter medicine... but i do listen to the Dr.

[Echatham]

how we looking now? left limb looks good to me, i think the right needs a nother  scrape or two a couple inches out of the fade?  

[Echatham]

and a little more work... not a big difference, but i think a step in right direction.

[Echatham]

if im gonna put more curve in the tips, should i do it now... or wait till after tillering... or no difference?  think im going to just keep going forward as is and see where we end up.