Lam bow losing weight

[Gordon Jabben]

I have a question for the lamenated bow builders.  I made a lam bow in the Hill style in the late 80's that was too much weight for me now.  I narrowed the tips, sanded the glass, and rounded the glass on the corners of the limbs and got the bow down 3 pounds to 63#@28".  I took it squirrel hunting and shot some targets and while weighting another bow, weighed it again.  To my surprise, it had lost 3 more pounds which is great.  My question, is this normal?

[kennym]

Normally no, but if you have a real high % of wood core to glass, maybe?

Depending on the length, probably had .050 glass on it?

I see you sanded the glass and narrowed, so glass may be thin allowing it to take a set?

Just ramblin out loud....

[Gordon Jabben]

Thanks Kenny for the reply.  I think you are probably right.  I did take quite a bit off the glass and it is very deep cored.  Now I'm curious about possible loss of speed.

[kennym]

Does it have string follow?

Those are sposed to be very forgiving and shootable!!