Nice bow! 
I use a little coping saw first to get the lines then i use a little chainsaw rat tail file.
Thank ya Dwardo. I tried to use a little rat tail file on the last one, but I kept messing up. I guess I just need practice.
Looks good,I use a 5/32 chain saw file,I never cut across the back,can't tell for sure but looks like you did, [not sure] that always worries me unless I am using over lays. :)Good looking bow ,should be a sweet shooter.
Pappy
I guess a rat tail file was probably the obvious answer,
, but ya never know. Thank ya though. This bow was weird. Both limbs started out even and matching each other, but as I tillered it out one was significantly weaker than the other. Both limbs are perfectly clean with no knots or twist or anything. I don't know if one limb was drier than the other or what. The wood was cut last spring and has been drying as a roughed out bow, only about an inch thick if that, since around then. Oh, and I didn't cut threw the back anywhere. I think you might be mistaking my white string in the nock picture for white wood?,
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EDIT: I really wanna sinew this guy, but it is already around 55# - 60# or so @ 28" (guessing). So I guess I will only do one layer.... Or maybe two. I just know I'm gonna end up with a 80# pound bow in a year or so after the sinew is fully cured though!... and I
don't want that. I have a sinew backed bow, it was only one layer of sinew, so I only waited 2 weeks or so in the hot summer to tiller it out. Came in at around 60# or so at 26", and stayed around there all summer. A year later I tried to brace it, and it almost didn't even happen. I know sinew has to get worked in after a while, or in the winter when it's dry, but I swear this bow has got to pull close to 90# or so at 26". So now it just sits up on my rack now, and thats all it does.
I found a place that sells backstrap sinew as dog chews, they say it is 10" - 13" long. So I am thinking, if these work, I might just do one thin layer.
