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WillS:
As a reference (to myself as much as anybody reading!) I'll stick the dimensions in here as well.

Measurements taken from centre, and every 6 inches outwards

Right Limb (in mm) - Reflexed limb

W     /     D

40          36

39          33

39          31

36          30.5

33          26

29.5       25

23          26

18          25   (leaving tips wide and thick so far)


Left Limb

W    /    D

40         36

40         33

38         33

35         31

30         28

28         26

23         26

18         25

toomanyknots:

--- Quote from: WillS on November 04, 2013, 06:38:17 pm ---Unstrung it's basically straight, with this great flip of reflex starting about 8 inches from the right tip.  Tricky!

The right limb does look skinny, I've been trying to avoid overdoing it, but with all that reflex it just isn't moving at all.  Dreading the thought of reducing enough to get it moving and then finding out it's way underweight!  I've done that too often, but can't seem to beat my brain into getting over the issue.

--- End quote ---

I do think you should bring the right limb around to meet the left limb. Typically the left limb will be stronger, and will be your bottom limb, and the reflexed limb will be your weaker top limb, if the bow is tillered a normal tiller. You typically won't have to add any positive tiller with ones like this, because the straight limb will be naturally stronger than the reflexed limb, if tillered even to the eye. The left limb will end up being bigger than the right reflexed limb. The important thing is the tiller.

WillS:
Video!  Hopefully this works.

The brace height is zero, so the string is tight but not bracing the bow at this point.  It's being winched down to 120lbs, which takes it to roughly 15 inches I think. 

I still think it's the right limb (with the reflex) that's causing the uneven tiller, but what's weird is when paused at full draw, both limbs look even, but not the same if that makes sense.  It looks REALLY ugly when you flip it horizontally though. 

May be worth bearing in mind this is currently 83.5 inches long, which is way too big, so I've got room to chop ends off and sort that out.  That should help with the really reflexed tip on the right, albeit losing some nice snappy kick.... dilemma!

Advice, thoughts, etc etc would all be appreciated!  Cheers guys!  (click on the picture I think, to see the video)

Del the cat:
Looks pretty good to me :).
The tips move about 3 bricks max. Which is enough to get a braced string on it.
I think you really need the short string on it as it will change the angles and the tiller slightly.
I certainly wouldn't take off any more until you have it at say 4-5" brace. Then slowly take it back to target weight (with fingers crossed etc ;) )
Del
(Prob with reflex is you can take so much off trying to bring it round it ends up weak. So I wouldn't worry if the reflex limb looks a tad strong... the unbraced shape should be still showing at full draw)

WillS:
Thanks Del! I'll get it braced up and work on it properly tomorrow.  It's eating my Fastflight string like crazy at the moment which I've not come across before.  I'm using the string I've got on it for long string tillering, twisting it up to get it the right length to brace and it's just stretching out like mad, so the brace height drops right down to nothing instantly.  Really odd!  You'd have thought a string that's been taken up to 120lbs during tillering would be fully stretched?!

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