Well, I'm not finished, but I'm now down to some minor adjustments and finishing her up. I tillered with a draw knife, rasp and a sanding block. I and others have talked about the straight edge a good bit. If you look at the first and second pic, It's drawn to about 10 inches early on. I run the straight edge along the belly checking the gap. If there is little or no daylight in an area I mark with a pencil in that or those areas. If there is an area that bends too much, I will mark it as "don't touch". The third pic shows the belly as I begin to scrape away the areas that I've marked. I fix the bend in each limb and get the weight even in both at this time. Once it's right, just keep increasing the draw length and keep it all nice and even. A nice even arc is what I'm looking for and the gap tells me when I got it. Slight bend thru the handle at full draw so the tiller is a bit elliptical. Booger bear to tiller on this one as there are lot's of bends and kinks and twists, but she's gonna make a bow and I'm diggin' the looks of her. Again, I gotta say thanks to Pearl on this one as his advice was spot on, on the crack (for lack of a better term). Don't know about 5000 shots but I wouldn't bet against it.
