"warfing"

[PeteA]

Looking for info on "warfing". Anyone familiar?

I understand it is the process of fitting old compound risers with recurve limbs. "Tradcycling"

[fireball31]

If I were you I would go to tradtalk.com with this question.  I didn't get many responses when i posted a similar question here, but tradtalk has an entire forum area devoted to it.  Good luck.  What type of riser do you have?

[koger]

Trad talk is the place for this. I have warfed several bows, working on 3 right now. It involves reworking a compound riser to use recurve or longbow limbs. Usually with good results. I took 2 Hoyt 'Banshee compuound risers that the limbs were shot from our 4H club that I help coach. I trashed everything but the riser and limb bolts, ordered a set of Greatree limbs for each one, #20 and #30 pounds, did a little grinding to get them to fit, filled in any gaps with epoxy putty, painted the putty to match the riser. I then cleaned up the limbs, bolted them on and made a flemish string for them. Great feeling, long stabil bow, shoots great. I am currently working on a PSE Lazer Riser and a Black bear riser, have them ready for limbs. I bought both risers for less than $10 each on broken bows, and have less than $100 in two sets of limbs, a set of #40 Quinn stingray limbs and a set of Mizar #40, both should work out well, and handle and balance well. Pm me for any more info if I can help.

[Hogdgz]

I just got my first warf bow, I had an old black bear riser, and my friend made me some brackets for the limb pockets. I have 46# short limbs that make a 62 inch bow and it comes in at about 52 pounds. I believe this is going to be my go to bow, it is so fun to shoot and very quite. It is definetly an ugly bow, but man it shoots awesome.

[Nala]

I have a ProLine WARF and its a darn nice bow.

Not all compound risers can be "WARFed."  You have to make sure they have the right or acceptable limb pocket angle.  TradTalk is pretty much WARF central.  They can tell you what risers make the best WARF bows.

I would recommend you go over there and ask Bob Gordon, who is the WARF grand MASTER, about your riser questions.  He also builds WARF riser if you want him to do one for you.  If you want it done RIGHT, let Bob Gordon do it for you.  He is very reasonable and you won't be sorry and if you ever go to sell it, having one made by Gordon would be a definite plus over one built by yourself.

Good Luck.

Nala

[myshootinstinks]

I went through a fairly brief "warf-bow" kick.  The bows, depending on how they're set up, shoot pretty well.  I don't care for the ILF system or metal risers so I gave it up.

[Pete W]

Here is a link to how I did some TD# risers.
 http://peteward.com/2008pages/Resurecting%20.the.TD3.html

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