Adding weight after the build, my fix

[JamesV]

I was building a heavy weight hybrid longbow and missed the stack horribly. I had build dozens of bows from this design and form, but this time I did the ridimidick in my head or from memory, don't remember which. Don't do this if you are OLD. Anyhow the the bow came in light 7# and I did not want to shorten the bow. I had used .040 on the back and .050 on the belly with a bamboo core. I could have easily stripped the riser and re-limbed the bow to get the exact poundage but I decided to do something different. It was personal now. I put the back glass on my grinder with 80 grit paper and cut it down a lot, then laminated another piece of .020 glass over it. Now I got a bow that is 9# heavy. Great, back to the grinder and several hours of grinding and checking the tiller and poundage. Hit everything perfect and I am the only one that can tell which bow it is. By the way this bow shoots perfect. After figuring the material and labor ($2.50 hour) apposed to re-limbing the bow it was a toss up. The next time I used a pencil.

James

[jess stuart]

Yes sir the old and remembering and ridimidick sure don't go together.  I have added glass to bows a couple of times that came out light and they are still going strong.  Good save.  You must be a very good craftsman to demand such high per hour wages. LOL

[Roy from Pa]

Didn't happen wifout pichers..  

[JamesV]

Posting pics on this site is too much of a hastle for me.