I even cleaned up the sides a little on the belt sander just to take out some slight bumps and tidy it up. Most of the work was just by eye against the string I taped taut from tip to tip along the back of the bow. A straight edge also showed up a few dips.
The shape is still basically rectangular with the corners rasped off. It's 40 x 37 at the centre and 22 x 20 at the tips (that's in mm with width then thicknes)
Putting it back on the tiller you can see the left limb is working more now. In fact it's working more than the right in the middle/end of the limb! It's getting towards brace height too.
A bit of work on the right and I'll be thinking of getting it to a low brace, say 4 or 5"
This nicely shows the process of trying to balance the limbs. It needs to be about right by the time it's braced, once braced the bow is maybe 75% finished. As soon as the short string is on, applying 100# will probably pull it back about to about 15" draw or so. Actually it's interesting to make that guess now, so we can see what the figure really is when I reach that point..
Enough chat, here's the video.
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