Originally posted by Orion: Most production bows will have about 1/4 inch positive tiller, i.e., the top limb will be about 1/4-inch further from the string when measured at the fadeout than the bottom limb. Yours is 5/8 inch positive tiller. That's out of whack. Not much you can do about it other than retiller by weakening the bottom limb a little. It will shoot as it is, but because the limbs are a bit out of tiller, hand shock will probably be a little more. Brace height might also be a bit high.
Originally posted by Jeremy: The tiller on that bow is just fine Things end up looking a little odd to people who aren't used to the asymmetric limb lengths of the old semi recurves.I just went and measured 4 of my '57-58 Polars... they are all just north of .5" difference at the fades. Same for the '54-'56s as well.The brace for these old bows went by the old 'fistmele' method - 7 to 7-1/2". I think most of mine are set right in the middle of that (the one I have a low-stretch string on is fantastic to shoot! :eek: )