Walnut Footed Riser ***(Finished)***

[Mad Max]

I was on my way to MoJam in Marshall Missouri about 4 years ago, and only 5 Minutes form there I passed a yard with half a dozen people cutting up a tree, A storm had come threw the night before and up rooted it., I notices the brown heart wood so I turned around and asked If I could have some, walnuts all over the ground.
I went to wal-mart and got some wood glue and and went to the Jamboree and sealed up the ends.



So here is one of the riser blanks, Iv' wanted to do a footed riser so I got busy.

[Longcruise]

Mark, I  got no idea what's going on there but it sure looks cool.

[Mad Max]

 

[Flem]

Nice score! Thats my favorite kind of wood, free or scavenged

[Roy from Pa]

Well Maxi boy at last ya got some nuts:)

[Mad Max]

 

[Bvas]

Pretty slick Mark.

Love working with it also. I got a bunch of it when the power company cut down a tree at my moms a few years back. I’ve always wondered if the sapwood was safe (hard enough) to use.

Is it still considered footed using the same wood for all three pieces?

[Mad Max]

"Is it still considered footed using the same wood for all three pieces?"

Good question?
I thought it was the way the stripes flares out at the limb pad.

Part of my grip and site window will have sap wood in it.

[Mad Max]

Making progress

[Bvas]

Mark, am I seeing things or are your limb pads radiused?

[Mad Max]

Radiused 

[zhangkeyang]

beautiful wood

[Crooked Stic]

I have a need to see how thats gonna look with a string on it.

[KenH]

I've never heard the term "footed riser".  It's not in the Vocabulary section. 

I know what a footed arrow is -- a softwood shaft with a short bit of usually dense hardwood spliced into the head end to give the shaft a slight FOC balance.  But what that has to do with risers, I haven't a clue.

[Mad Max]

Hear you go ken
http://buildyourownbow.com/heres-a-take-down-recurve-that-i-finished-up-for-my-friend-brent/

[Mad Max]

I have a need to see how thats gonna look with a string on it.

I do too.
I braced it Yesterday , It's kind of like a nice looking Woman, the more curves the Mo better

[KenH]

OK -- I found a description of a footed rise on the Blacktail Bows website.  It features a belly and back wood of contrasting color to a thin central strip of wood which flares out to be the only wood at the top and bottom ends of the rise... sort of an I beam effect with large ends on the eye...  Blacktail claims it as a proprietary design.

[Mad Max]

 

[Mad Max]

The main reason I made the riser with Walnut was it was free, and I did these stripes for the first time, no loss on a fancy riser.

[Mad Max]

Still need to shape the riser



I like it