Narrow throat

[LongStick64]

How narrow can a bow's throat be before you get to the danger zone. I have a few recurves and the throat area on some are real narrow and I wonder if they can handle it over a long haul.

[twigflicker]

I believe it often depends on the wood being used... action or dymondwood you can probably get by with a thinner throat... exotics you need to be a bit more careful...

Had a Griffin that a previous owner did surgery on... cut closer to center and narrowed the throat and the bow developed a split right in the _| of the sight window... followed right along the grain...

Jonathan

[FerretWYO]

Gonna put a compy of this on the Bench as well. A lot of knowledge over there.

[CheyenneFoote]

The bowyer probably went through several test runs on his riser. I wouldn't touch the throat at all.Recurve risers with small throats like a longbow will not have a deep riser angle. Most takedown bows are angled around 20 degree's(where the limbs bolt to the bow) if you narrow the throat to much on any these bows it may break. Why risk injury or the bow breaking?