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Offline RAU

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Adding Weight To a Glass Bow
« on: July 30, 2009, 09:56:00 PM »
I built a glass backed straight limbed longbow a year or so ago. I like it alot but it came in about 10 lbs under the weight I want. I bought another strip of glass recently and plan on sanding off the finnish and gluing this on in an attempt to gain 10+ pounds of weight. Any of you guys have any experience in doing anything like this? I cant decide if I should glue it to the back or cut it in half and glue it to the belly. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Adding Weight To a Glass Bow
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 10:33:00 PM »
Here is some results in that area! I've never done it tho...

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Re: Adding Weight To a Glass Bow
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 11:55:00 PM »
could you shorten it by 1" on each end and glue on new nocks?

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Re: Adding Weight To a Glass Bow
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2009, 10:15:00 PM »
RAU I have done that a couple of times once I added .030 glass  and the other time .040 glass.  Both times I added to the belly, just roughfed it up well added smooth on and cured at reduce temp.  Worked okay and have shot those two bows for over a year.

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