There has been a lot of chat about highly reflexed staves. This bow is from such a log, 4.5" reflex with a nasty kink of deflex and character wiggle in one limb.
My previous attempt with Hornbeam had smashed due to excessive heat straightening (the stave was a total pig) so I didn't want to heat treat it.
This one was roughed out with an axe as my bandsaw had just snapped my last blade (which was a bit blunt for hornbeam anyhow)
Like some of you guys had said tillering the big reflex was problematic, and I got the compulsory whack on the knuckles when it flipped.
All the reflex pulled out during the first tillering and the bow looked ugly as sin looking real square at full draw (almost like two hinged limbs). I heat treated it, took out some of the deflex kink and retillered it.
It takes a tiny bit of follow but recovers to a hint of reflex.
62" ntn. Max limb width 1.75" tapering to as thin as I dare
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Tip overlays are hornbeam... I liked the contrast
Note:- Just noticed , the shot named HB
Belly is of course the
back 
Here are some pics from start to finish.
Including one of my Quality Control inspector examining the deflex kink
Del
(PS the full draw shot is taken from video on my blog.
http://www.bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/hornbeam-looking-better.html(It shows it being drawn on the tiller before the final tweaking too, looking a bit wonky...One of my final tweaks was to fill a knot on the deflex kink which I had excavated and left as a feature, I think filling it helped to stiffen that area a tad)
