On my bow I couldn't deside what to use in the riser. I kept looking at this one block of Black Walnut laying in the shop and finally decided it was the piece to use. It has alot of wild grain and color shades.
The riser for her bow was sort of a screw up to start with that I couldn't see wasting. It was my first attempt at making a reproduction of the Rocky Mtn Recurve. I was just guessing at limb bed angles and made a bad choice. After building the first set of limbs (that are not on another riser with proper angle) I just pushed the wrong angle riser to the back of the work bench and carried on building afew other bows.
When I started my new bow I kept looking at the screw up riser and decided to turn it into a bow as well. I knew what I did to it was just going to be a guessing game, but what the heck. No risk no gain.
The real sweetness to this bow is the riser is only 1-1/4" wide and the limbs are 1-1/2".
Don't ask me why I decided to try 1-1/2" limbs. I've never made recurve limbs that narrow and figured it would be better to waste a couple of pieces of 1-1/2" glass than my normal 1-3/4". Like I said this bow was a shot in the dark to start with.
On my bow I decided not to reduce the width of the riser at the limb beds. After building Bill Lambs bow I like the way it looked with full 1-3/4" limb beds and decided to make this one the same way.
Both bows got antler limb tips. I used antler on the limb bolt pads for mine and Walnut and maple for hers.
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Topic: Two new ones under construction (Read 810 times)
