Determining Poundage when building a bow?

[snag]

I am starting to build a 62" recurve. The limbs will have clear glass, a veneer of rosewood and then bamboo core, rosewood and clear glass again. We have looked at previous bows that have been built in this shop and their specs and how they came out in draw weight. I know you want to error on the heavy side so you can sand down the limbs, if needed, to bring the poundage down. Is this all just a slightly educated guessing game? With using different core woods that would effect your results too, I would think.

[kennym]

Yep and yep!! LOL

The best thing you can have are shop records off a particular form.

[Bob Sarrels]

What Kinny said.  It is different for each bow.  When I create a new model I have to build about 5 bows to come up with a good recipe.  I start trying to hit a 50 lb bow and then I have a good idea where to go from there.  I get appx. 1 lb for each  .003 on my longbow, up or down and about half that on my curves.  Kinda just gotta build some bows.

[Oregon Okie]

yup snag, we are just going to have to keep building more to figure it out