Ryan, I disagree with these guys. I don't want to make a concrete judgement without seeing a full length picture of the side view of the bow unstrung, but I don't know how folks can call a natural kink, hump, small area of deflex, or whatever we choose to call it, a hinge... because it's not.
Besides the natural hump near the handle, another thing that is trying to deceive us and make us believe there IS a hinge is that after the hump, for a large portion of the limb, it's naturally reflexed(unstrung)... so, relative to the hump,(and the other limb) it will appear stiffer throughout the whole process, like it's not flexing enough, when in fact it IS. In other words, it may 'appear' stiff, but not be 'acting' stiff.
When we judge a limb of character, we need to compare it in whole and in part, relative to its unstrung profile... not to other bows, not to the other limb, and not to the perfectly arcing limb in our mind's eye.
Check, double, and triple check that your thickness taper is gradual and accurate... and you probably won't get into too much trouble.
It can also help to take a picture of the suspect limb unstrung, braced, and partially drawn, and lay them over top of, or near to, one another on your computer. Or actually trace the limb on butcher's paper and hang it behind the bow for reference.
It's hard to tell in pictures, it would be better to see it in person, but I wouldn't be surprised if that limb on the right is working just the way I'd want it to. I held a blank piece of paper over that limb in the first picture and traced it with a pencil, then held the tracing over the same limb in the second picture, and it shows the whole limb is flexing more in the second picture than the first. Like I said, hard to tell from here, but from what I can make out, I think you're doing pretty good so far.
