Can I Trim this to fix it?

[Clean_Missed]

I made a decision and have commenced with piking the bow. Part of the decision is due to the fact that I had a different string ordered than I thought (for a 68" N2N bow) so I have Trimmed the tips, beveled the ends and spliced on cherry tips with a purple heart overlay. I'm hoping that I'll have gained a few pounds after re-tillering. I am still toying with the idea of trying to temper the belly with some heat. I watched Marc St.Louis' videos on heat treating and it doesn't seem to difficult, just time consuming. As of yet Im undecided.

Adam, I know you said I should save the fancy stuff for a few bows down the road but he Lord hates a coward, right? 

[Eric Krewson]

OK, my opinion of the tiller, badly whip tillered with real hingy spots about a foot in from the tips and stiff spots for aways from the handle out. Make a tillering gizmo, get the rest of the limbs bending evenly and then pike the bow.

[adb]

OK, my opinion of the tiller, badly whip tillered with real hingy spots about a foot in from the tips and stiff spots for aways from the handle out. Make a tillering gizmo, get the rest of the limbs bending evenly and then pike the bow.

Badly whip tillered?? I think you should clean your glasses and have another look. If you think that's whip tillered, you've never seen a whip tillered bow. Other than the top fade being a bit stiff, his tiller is fine.

Here's what whip tillered looks like:

Not sure who is in the pic... just found this with a google search.

[adb]

Don't let me hold you back, Brendon! Pretty much everyone hates a coward! You wanna heat treat... I say go for it!

[Blaflair2]

I would go for it if that's what u think, my first bow I did things ppl said I shouldn't. Hell I still do

[SLIMBOB]

I was very skeptical about the risk/reward when I first started heat tempering.  I have found little risk if any.
Don't burn it clean thru.
Don't heat treat the back.
Outside of that, it's pretty simple with a lot of upside.

[Eric Krewson]

I have made a lot of bows and call them as I see them. Run a gizmo up those limbs at it will show you exactly what I mentioned, guaranteed. 145 bows worth of experience has given me a pretty good eye and my glasses are spotlessly clean.

As for the picture, that is not what a whip tillered bow looks like, that is what poorly tillered, hinged at mid limb bow looks like looks like. A whip tillered bow is bending some some out of the fades(the bow in the picture is not) and a lot more in the outer third.

[adb]

Well, Eric, regardless of how many bows you've made, your 'eye' in this case is off. This bow is not 'badly whip tillered.' It's not even a little whip tillered. Did you look at the pic of a whip tillered bow? Do yourself a favour and look at it again and then go back and look at this bow. I'm not sure what you're seeing.

[Eric Krewson]

Didn't mean for this to get into a P$$$ing match, you all make bows any way you like, call them anything you want.

My bows have won dozens of state championships, 4 or 5 national championships and finished 2nd and 3rd in the worlds this year, I know a little about making bows and how to tiller them. 

[SLIMBOB]

I too made the observation that this bow is not whip tillered. I don't believe it is based on my definition of a whip tillered bow. I stand behind that observation, again based on my definition. A little loose in the outer limbs maybe, but even that is debatable. Not taking anything away from your expertise or accomplishments at all. We just disagree on this one.

[adb]

Didn't mean for this to get into a P$$$ing match, you all make bows any way you like, call them anything you want.

My bows have won dozens of state championships, 4 or 5 national championships and finished 2nd and 3rd in the worlds this year, I know a little about making bows and how to tiller them.

Seems to me the only one making this a pi$$ing match is you. What do your self congratulatory accomplishments have to do with the tiller on this bow?

[4dog]

what just happened??  lol 

[adb]

I think what happened was, someone stepped in it and now they're trying to scrape it off their shoe.

[George Tsoukalas]

Tiller is good. It is very slightly whip tillered but that's ok as it is a good design for a bow that is a little longer than neede.
I'd enjoy it as is.
Jawge

[George Tsoukalas]

Oops. I missed that you started piking. Jawge