Tired Old Warbow Experiment

My mate JT brought over a tired old warbow with a ton of set, the belly was very clean but the back had some blue staining which could be rot or the natural discolouration that you sometimes get between heart and sap. It was always a funny bow that looked like a 150# but was only about 100# it was bought as a used bow in the first place. He originally suggested ripping off the sapwood and replacing it with a boo back.
I sawed off the nocks and ran it through the bandsaw while JT was beavering away turning some blunts on the lathe. It was obvious that both back and belly had taken some set, but the belly having taken more. I set too heat treating and straightening the belly, doing one end at a time.

Having heat treated and straightened the belly, I suggested we just re-fit the back, gluing it up with a hint of reflex. This was thought to be a wizard wheeze, so I went ahead after JT had gone and finished the job. I did a little tentative gentle heat straightening of the back, heating only the belly side of it. The glue up went ok, but due to the change in curvature the back slat overhung by 1/8" at either end! That 1/4" change in length gives some idea of the extra tension that will be in the bow, mind we've lost the thickness of the coarse saw cut (3 teeth per inch alternate set blade!)

It glued up nicely, but the bow had a bit of a sideways curve, however was very wide in the centre (about 42mm) and the tips were about 13mm where I'd sawn off the nocks. This allowed me to rasp some off one side in the central section and some off the opposite side at the tips, which straightened it out somewhat. A little remaining curve doesn't matter as it puts the string line closer to the arrow pass for a right handed archer. The width is now about 38-39mm at the grip which is good.
I gave it a good scraping and sanding so that I could see how the glue line looks, it's pretty good and hard to spot generally. Before working on it you could get a full 4 fingers between grip and floor with the tips on the floor and the back uppermost.
Now with the belly on the floor you can get 2 fingers under each tip!

Note:- I flipped one of the pics so that the bow is the same way round in all the pics for ease of comparison.