string follow question on self bows

[TroyH]

Just finishing up an osage self bow and the string follow is around 1.75" after relaxed.  Is that a little excessive or pretty close to normal?
It is a 62" pulling around 50#@26" and seems to be a good shooter, though I haven't finished the handle area completely.
Is there anything that can be don't to help avoid it?  It understand that heat tempering the belly helps.  I am assuming that once the string follow has set in, there is nothing you can do to remove any of it.

[John Scifres]

That's about right for follow for the first few bows.  After awhile you might get it to about 1" but that's the best I have ever done.  I generally assume 2" so I start with that much reflex bent in.

As far as fixing it, here is a fixalong I did a while back.  Fixit