A neighbor brought a bow over that he made many years ago in shop class, a Bingham recurve. He barely did anything to the limbs and string grooves, odd little notches and crooked limbs. It took three people to twist and wrestle to get a wrong string on it. He borrowed it to someone and they brought back in three pieces, super delaminate job, limbs, riser, cracked back lams. I glued it to together with regular Gorilla glue, limbs riser, added tips, and tillered so it was finally straight and reduced it to about 40 pounds. That was years ago and the bow is still shooting.
I should add that I wore, leather gloves, my motorcycle leather jacket, and a full face helmet when I put a string on it and test drew it while tillering. I shot it about 50 times with riding garb before I let anyone else try it.