My first osage bow

[wvbowhntr]

I really appriciate all the responses thank you.  A little more info the limbs are just over 1 1/4in to just past mid limb tapering to 3/8 tips.  The wraps at the tips look so big because they are covering sinew wraps.  I left the outer limbs stiff and the tips static to help with string angle.  I figured with osage and sinew it could handle the inner to mid limbs doing most of the work.

[wvbowhntr]

Was leaving so much of the outer limb stiff a bad idea?

[gmc]

I really like your bow. You've done some things with this bow that I've yet to experience.

Some of the more experienced guys can offer up a better opinion, but my thoughts are that it probally can handle it. But normally you try to match the tiller with limb design. With a paraell limb the tiller should be more elliptical with the bend spread more into the middle 3rd of the limb. Leaving the tips a little stiff is matter of preference, to each their own. But this should improve cast and equal out the stress on the limbs which will keep shooting longer over time.  Greg