Riser Design

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

I know I have been bouncing around with ideas but this is on the topic of three piece riser designs.

How do you all come up with new ideas for the look of a riser. I have drew out the rough block with the limb pads and then boom I am stuck. I dunno what the heck I am doing with designs.

Do you all just wing them??? I want to make something simple but elegant. How do you take a riser from block form to finished design. How do you get to that point with drawingings???

Do you maybe ask another bowyer for an idea?

[Roy from Pa]

Practice on a 2x4..

[Pheonixarcher]

My first 3pc build, I tried to blue print a design (as best I could),  that I knew was a great shooting and solid design. After that first build, I learned some things, and refined my design to follow function. The characteristics of the grip and and my preference of the blending between that shape, the sight window, the limb pads, the blending of the limbs into the riser, and sometimes the materials being used, dictate the end design of the bow.
This has worked best for me when designing a riser around a known limb design. If designing a new limb, I like to get a new form worked out, figure out the best limb pad angle and riser length, then repeat the above process. For me, form follows function, then your artistic creativity works to make a good looking bow.

[milehi101]

I agree with Roy from  Pa when i make a new riser I cut and shape it out of a pine 2X4.  I make sure the grip feels like I like it and the limb pads are at the correct angles.  Sometimes I make more than one to get where I want to be.  It hass always worked for me