Now that my busy season is behind me, I've been able to refocus some of my efforts on this looming bow project. Last weekend, I got a new bow roughed out, floor tillered, backed with hickory and on the tree. However, I can't quite figure out what's happening here. Both limbs come out pretty close to evenly bending on the gizmo (evenly down the length but uneven with each other) with a little work to do in the last 6-8" of the tips. Yet the upper limb (right) is showing very stiff compared to the lower limb (left). From brace, moving 9" out from center, the string is about 5/16 higher on the lower limb. If I use my hands & force more of a bend in the upper limb (right), then the limbs tend to even out more -- relaxing the lower limb.
I'm thinking that I need to scrape down the entire length of the upper limb (right) until they bend more equally but would like some input from the more experienced folks in the group before I continue scraping. My bows don't usually come out this wonky but this is as far as I've gotten with backed boards & glued-in reflex.
The bow is 68" hickory-backed maple with about 2.5" of reflex glued in (got more clamps this time). You'll have to excuse my tillering tree -- it's far from straight and the lines behind it mean nothing.