Recurve build limbs looking better

[Over&Under]

That turned out great Cory!...hard to tell you have little experience:)

[peter61]

Hi Cory!
Great bow, great work, it' a beauty    
Can you tell us the length and the angle of the limbs?

Greetings, Peter

[heartlandbowyer]

Peter the bow is 56inch nock to nock, string is 53 in. Riser is 13 inches with 4.5 in limb pads at 10deg.

Thanks
Cory

[carpin'mark]

Really nice limb design and beautiful bow, in my humblest of opinion, the limbs are showing just a  slight amount of hinge just past the wedge tips. If you have any more weight to reduce, try taking it mid-limb on out, it will help reduce the fatigue point.

[heartlandbowyer]

Mark, good eye, already started to do that and it's getting better I've got a little more wiggle room as limbs are still just wider than 1.5" and I'm right at the high point of my shooters weight.

I've already been been thinking about the next one having a longer wedge and a longer more gradual taper. If I can't get the stress point out of this one she will go on the R/D shelf. I will still have a good riser and will just have to glue up some new limbs.

Totally new designs are a struggle on the first one off the form for sure but if ya wanna make em your gonna break em.

Cory

[Buemaker]

Overall very good, but I hope you do not mind if I disagree with you on one point. I would not make the wedge longer, but rather shorter or thinner at the last couple of inches in order to get it flexing a bit closer to the handle. Wood combination is very nice. Bue--.

[heartlandbowyer]

Bue, nope I don't mind, that and experimenting is how I got to my current longbow design. I know I definitely need a less steep taper on the wedge. Right now it is only 8.25 in long. The bow already has a pretty short working limb so you probably are correct when you say not to lengthen the wedge.

Right now I'm just I'm just running 1 taper in the stack, I may try to incorperate some kind of core lam taper and adjust the wedge taper for a better transition from wedge to limb. I think that will help the fade work better without the stress.

Cory

[Buemaker]

No reason to put the limbs on the shelf, the bow should last for many years and I think she is a fast shooter. I have seen bows fron the 1960s and 1970s with a limb design like that and many of them are still around. Bue--. Sell it to a flight shooter.

[carpin'mark]

Yep, new designs can be tricky, all you can do is go with what you know. I agree with Bue, I dont think its a 'shelfer' by any means, its not bad past the wedge, you just dont want it to go any further. Worst case, you may go below target weight and possibly lose some of that nice static at the tip on this particular one as you slim it down.
The wedge length if fine, maybe heavier taper to push the flex past the wedge tip a little or less material(if any) removed at that point.
It's a great looking design, a few minor details and its gonna be a thumper!

[Al Dean]

My 2 cents worth.  I think your limb design is good but not for that riser.  I would reverse the wedge and go with 20* limb pad.

[heartlandbowyer]

Al, I've thought a bout reversing the wedge but only for aesthetics. I'm only at 10 degrees I took a pic at 20 and I think I would loose a lot of my preload and that would hurt the bows efficiency. I think I would have to thicken my stack by half to get my desired weight. I could be wrong thought since this is really my first curve.

[heartlandbowyer]

Bue and Mark! Did some more work on the limbs and got them decent, still tracking good and at mid point of shooters weight I think she will make a swap bow after all. What y'all think?  

Cory

[jess stuart]

I would say YES indeed! That is a very nice bow.

[beachbowhunter]

Nice job smoothing out the hinge. I think the full draw looks nice and even.

[carpin'mark]

Cory that looks really nice, great job bringing it all together.

[britt]

Very nice Cory. I'v decided to stick with limbs you built me. My back muscle is building up. BUT that recurve is looking really sweet, to bad its not a lefty.