Kirk,I appreciate all the help I can get on this as this is targeted to be my first successful recurve. I will be going with your advice and getting rid of the taper and will also be looking into the .015 twill. Going to try the first one without it as once I get a weight for this design I should be able to calculate stack fairly easily going forward and that is where I will be interested in the twill. As always appreciate everyone’s help and will try to post if I make any progress over the long weekend.