When to induce reflex and or heat treat?

[k-hat]

Lately i like to do mine as i approach low brace, when the bulk of wood removal is done.  But that's just me and my way

To verify what Chris said, i did a really deep heat temper on a hickory pyramid stave and it gained an insane amount of weight.  I removed all the "toasted" wood and then some and it was still VERY tempered.  I suspect the tempering was still evident after i'd removed half the thickness.

[Sidewinder]

These are exactley the kind of responses I was looking for. Thanks for the input fellas. I built a caul a couple weeks ago and decided that I was going to start doing the heat treat on all my bows as well as induce reflex because I woulld like to improve my performance as much as I can and also would like to finally get bows that have zero noticable set. My bows shoot great as is but I know I can improve them and I am convinced this will be the way to accomplish that.  Danny