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dogwood:
I am beginner in bow making and this is my fifth bow. It is 75 inches long dogwood heattreated bow. I'm confused about the tiller of this bow. When I measured the distance between the limb and string I noticed that left limb is bending a bit more than the right limb, but when I pull bow on tillering tree it is looking like that right limb is bending more than left. What do you think about it?

dogwood:
Sory, but I forgot to send images here they are:

bownarra:
Left limb is naturally deflexed from what I can tell. It is actually bending less and is stiffer.
It should be the lower limb.
Being dogwood for a 28" draw 68 inches is plenty. Dogwood is tough stuff.

Aksel:
Right limb looks good but you risk getting a hinge on left outer limb. Let it bend a bit more inner 1/2.

Where has it taken set and was it straight to begin with?

dogwood:
Thank you for the advices, I really appreciate it. Before tillering the stave had reflex in the whole right limb (about1/2 of inch) and the bottom limb was straight except the tip which was reflexed about 3/4 of inch. It took 2 and half inch of set at right limb, and about 3 and half inch of set at left limb. I have done a bit scraping on left limb and it pulls 45 lbs at 32inches of draw for now.

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