Question about reducing bow weight

[jonsimoneau]

Please excuse my ignorance on this one guys but does anyone know if it is possible to have a bowyer reduce weight on carbon limbs? I'm thinking you probably can't do it but figure someone here knows for sure.

[grayfeather]

Mike Rash of Legends Bows .He is a sponsor give him a call.

[wingnut]

You can do a little if it's a longbow by trapping the limb but recurves are very difficult to even tiller.

Mike

[BOWMARKS]

Mike

What does "trapping the limbs" mean????  

[Fletcher]

"Trapping" is narrowing the belly or the back of the limbs so that the limbs have a trapezoid cross section.  Many bows are made this way from the start.

[Jorja Boy]

Hey Jon,

My curiosity is killin' me. I have been thinking about posting this very question. Just wondering if we were drooling over the same bow. It was a beautiful griffin. Cant remember if it was the sapele or burl maple one (one of them had carbon),  but  I think it was 54 lbs. A lil bit heavy for me. Got me to wondering the same thing, but then I thought that a reduction would probably result in a change in the limbs' dynamics (aside from speed). I figured, if I were to have it reduced I would want the original bowyer to do it in order to keep its dynamics as close to the same as possible. I'm assuming that would mean a long wait and I might as well just have one built for me. Then again I'm no bowyer nor physicist. All just assumptions.