DC, that's a good question and I can't answer it. It has bugged me for years. I have been able to identify different types of set and I can say with some certainty that a big percentage of the induced reflex does not act like set as far as hysteresis is concerned. I was working on one this morning. Osage, moisture was a little high at 8.5% so I didn't want to go to far with it before it was a little drier. I heated in 2 1/2" of reflex, the stave was a little wanky. I ended up taking it out to 26". This is a reflex deflex with gentle recurves. I lost almost 2" of what I put in but it didn't act like set. To me the dead give away for a bow taking on set that will have high hysteresis is how much it returns after resting. This bow didn't have any return to it that I could pick up on without a ruler. I had also taken quite a bit off the belly. I went ahead and reheated it and gave the limbs their final shape. I usually do this in two stages anyway. 1st stage I want the limbs as straight as possible between the fades and the start of the curve because it gives me better visual reference when Tillering. Second stage I reflex it a bit mid limb and then go back and nock off the few pounds it adds,
