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Eric Krewson:
I am with pappy, heat correct it, you can move the offending tip (what I would do first) or bend the handle.

Bruce M:
Thanks all for the replies and advice on which way to go.
I did do some scraping on the side of both limbs in the proper direction(20 scrapes on each limb). If it moved it was very little that I could hardly notice, all I am doing to it at this point is loosing weight.
I decided to put it up on the "works in progress" shelf to be resumed at a later date after I let it sit in my head for a while.
I pulled a different bow off of that same shelf that was left to let me to think on, so I'm going to flip the tips on that bow and probably get back to this one after that.
I will just do as others say and shoot it to see how it shoots but I think I am going to get a good amount of wrist slap. Bending the tips just seems to me that I'd be bending the tips out of center, where they are now, to off center tips in order to achieve a correction that, to me anyway, should be fixable with proper stock removal.
At this point I'm at 48# @28" and falling below my desired hunting weight so I think I'm going to continue on the stock removal evenly until I get the desired tiller and string path and to heck with the weight, I'll just make it a plinker bow but hopefully will learn how to do these corrections for the next one.
Thanks again all of you, great place for info and direction and I appreciate all of your input.

Muskyman:
You can bend it in the handle area. Steam it or use a heat gun. I prefer steam myself because I have a tendency to overheat with a heat gun. 2 -3 ft piece of downspout slid over the bow centered on the handle area. Steam it about a hour then bend it. Get everything ready to clamp into your jig before hand then clamp it.
Here is a picture from the traditional bowyers bible. Hopefully you can see it and read the text

FVRago:
This is how I make most of my bows, string down the left past the middle line. I find that they shoot a variety of arrows just great. I see no problems.

Bob Barnes:
I have this posted on my tillering tree... it might help.  It is what I use when I don't want to heat /steam correct a bow...which is not very often these days... :)

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