I think you are mad!
"spent like 3 hrs tillering it for some reason".
I dunno why people bust a gut trying to tiller bows all in one go or as if it's a race???
Just my opinion of course but I generally do it over a couple of days. I think you should spend at least 4 times as much time thinking about it, looking at it, and feeling it as you do removing wood.
I also start the process as early as possible and try to get both limbs moving nicely together by the time it's back to brace height. If it's not pretty good by then, you are always playing catch up.
OK it
can be done in an hour... (I've made a whole bow in an hour just for the heck of it).
The bow I'm currently working on was coming back fine, and looked ok at a static bend on the tiller. I happened to take some video of me pulling down on the sting flexing it back and forth and then winching it back.
The video of it being flexed rapidly really showed where there was too much flex at one point followed by a stiff point, this didn't show on the static or slow winched video.
Some carefull work and it's looking great now.
If I had a long rope on the tiller I could get back and flex it, but it's in my garage and I can't get far enough away to see it very well. That's why I mounted a camera bracket on the wall opposite.
If you try and do it all in one go you get 'tiller blind' or 'tiller fatigue'.. take a break have a cup of tea and a slice of toast,play with the kids/cat/dog, ask the wife if she has chores you could do (just kidding about that last one
)
Anyhow, enough chat... I can sumarise by two words.
Slow down!
Del