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Offline Donnierussell1

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Riser help
« on: November 25, 2014, 09:12:00 AM »
So I'm new to making bows and I'm having trouble on the riser specifically the cutting it out and keeping it smooth my bandsaw is a junk craftsmant  but I've made well tried to make six risers so far this one turned out the best will it work even with this little u evenin this one part j don't wanna do a complete biuld up and ruin my limbs and such well I can't figure out how to upload a pic but pretty much the saw went deeper on one part there is about 1/8-1/4" dimple and I can't San it out anymore will this work it is located just befor the center line on riser on the belly side

Offline JamesV

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Re: Riser help
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2014, 09:19:00 AM »
If you are building a glass laminated bow, the riser has to be fitted to the form.
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Re: Riser help
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2014, 07:14:00 PM »
It's kind of hard to give advice without seeing a picture of it and more of a description about the design of the bow.

When I cut out a riser on the bandsaw, I stay about 1/8" away from my pencil line and then use a spindle sander for inside fadeout curves and a disk sander for outside curves to get to the final shap.  Like James said, the riser needs to be fitted to the form or you won't get good glue joints.
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