kyner,

You want to know when the last time was that I had a bow in a shop for anything? Never!!!!!!!!!! I've been shooting compounds for 30 years and never had anybody work on my bows. If you want to learn about them you gotta "dig in". Just make sure you take measurements of things so you can return to those measurements if you do something the wrong way. Believe me, these things are not all that difficult. It's just that some people are not mechanically inclined or just plain scared they'll mess up. Well, take this to the bank. The only person that never screwed up never accomplished anything.

And getting a press (portable or bench) and learning to use it is not that bigga deal either. You just won't be making all kinds of tuning adjustments to the bow because it goes out of tune. Rather, you'll end adjusting things to find out what happens when you make certain adjustments. It all may become a learning process and can get pretty interesting in trying to tweak the last bit of performance out of a bow. And you most likely can't screw up your bow beyond repair. At least no more than some guy that may be working in a shop, and has no idea of what he is doing. And these guys do exist.