First BBO plus the usual tiller questions

[takefive]

Thanks to Roy I had good starting dimensions and I'm happy with the way the glue up turned out and the R/D.   Glued the handle on today and hope to start tillering tomorrow after work.  I'd like to end up 40-45# so I'm guessing I'll be thinning the limbs down quite a bit.  Is a gradual taper from the fades to the tips until it's floor tillered and then try to get the mid limbs to do more of the work the way to go or...?  This is bow number 5 for me and 2 of them were pyramids so I'll take all the tillering advice I can get.  Thanks.

 

[macbow]

I start about 6 inches from the tips and start removing wood to just past the R/D area. Over all on a R/D bow more wood is removed in that area than anywhere else.
I try to remove evenly from,each limb by counting strokes etc.

Once the limbs start bending on,floor tiller I move to long string.