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Title: Supper grizzly recurve form
Post by: ARTHUR Nicholas on July 05, 2024, 02:59:40 PM

Looking for plans or form template for a supper  grizzly can't find anything out there like it if someone has  one  and would trace half of it and include riser langth form fade to fade and width at fads I will pay for mailing it to me.   Thanks

Title: Re: Supper grizzly recurve form
Post by: Kirkll on July 06, 2024, 10:17:29 AM

Just get a photo printed out and a fresh piece of 1/4 hardboard or plywood on your bench first. Then take a hand full of finish nails and a piece of fiberglass , Formica, or .030 uniweft works good too, and bend it around until you get the shape you are looking for and use the nails to hold its shape….. it’s called “Carpenter Cad”.   :biglaugh:

Laugh if you want…..but it actually works rather well….

After you have traced the shape on your 1/4” material, cut it out, sand it smooth and then use one pattern for both limbs.     Kirk


Btw…. Every one of my limb designs were done this way….