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Author Topic: Anyone ever tried this?  (Read 701 times)

Offline philil

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Anyone ever tried this?
« on: March 05, 2007, 04:15:00 AM »
Hey Gang,
Was wondering if anyone has ever bought a pair of (2nd hand) take down limbs, and then made a matching riser for it?

Don't have any great bowyers nearby, so I thought about doing just that, so that I end up with the exact grip I want.

In case my shooting doesn't improve, I can still blame the limbs   :smileystooges:
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Offline robtattoo

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2007, 05:47:00 AM »
I've been wondering exactly the same thing.... :)
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Offline northern fisher

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2007, 07:25:00 AM »
If I'm not mistaken Paul Shafer used to build limbs for Bear risers.
Can't see any reason you couldn't do just the opposite
Never done it myself though
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Offline Swanny in MD

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2007, 07:58:00 AM »
A few years back I bought a set of Bill Stewart recurve limbs off an auction site for this purpose.  Though i had one years earlier, I didn't have a clue to limb pocket angles etc., so I found another auction selling the entire bow with several great close-up pics of the riser.

Printed out the riser and kept enlarging the pics until they measured the length I was trying to obtain (17" I think....had to glue several pages together).  Traced this onto some dyamondwood and the rest was history.

Oh - getting the limbs mounted exactly so the string was dead down the center was a bit challenging, but I think I made the limb pin holes in the riser a bit larger than I need, mixed up some short haired fiberglass and stuffed it down the holes, installed the pins and then mounted the limbs, clamped them onto riser, strung it and tweaked limbs left or right to obtain a perfect centerline.  

Half-hour later I was shooting it in the shop.  Was lots of fun. Tiller came out at a perfect 1/8+.

 

   

   

Offline philil

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2007, 06:03:00 AM »
That looks pretty good Ken!   :cool:  

Gonna have to find me some limbs and give this a try.
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Offline Doug S

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2007, 10:13:00 AM »
I have done it also a couple of times. The latest is a some black widow limbs.
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Offline CEW

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Re: Anyone ever tried this?
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2007, 12:45:00 PM »
I bought some KAP Carbon/Maple limbs - $200 and built a riser for them.

It's a nice shooter for little money.

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