Forget recurving, reflexing etc until you have made a handful of good straight bows
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Make a heat treated pyramid, straight side profile to start with.
tillering is hard enough to learn without adding diffficulties.
To answer your question - just tillering it well, going slowly and not ever overstraining any part of it will yield a good shooting bow. No need for fancy stuff yet