Walnut and Wenge Recurve Bow

Great job!! Looks incredible.
With that bow, it won’t matter if your friend is a good shot or not. He will look good using it.

Where did you get the plans for it?
I’d love to try making one. Love my compound bow, but would like to make a recurved bow.

Thanks, and once again, great job

Awesome job!

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Nice bow, my old bow was a D&H Super D. Someone shut the tip in the trunk-lid and that was that. I really like the idea of a take down. Also I had a Burger Button and flipper rest II, notice that you just use the shelf. Are bows going back to the earlier configurations?

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Personally, I’m not a fan of all the gadgets people put on bows, especially on compounds. While I get it for hunting, for target shooting it just seems like cheating to me :). I dont see any need for a fancy bolt on arrow rest though – this is just a piece of fake fur, and especially after you’ve made some shots and sorta pressed a groove into it, the arrows sit on it just fine.

Kevin, no plans used, though Bingham Projects (where I get the fiberglass strips from) sells plans and kits. I just looked up pictures of a bunch of takedown bows and drew up a template for a similar riser design, and then mostly just guessed at the limb shape. First one had a little too much recurve, made it hard to string (and those limbs twisted on me anyway). Second one I played it safe, but it didnt have enough recurve for my taste, so then the third limb form I just split the difference between the other two and it worked well.

The important thing, is you pretty much have to have a drum or wide belt sander if you’re going to make your own limb laminations. It seems to only take a few thousandths of an inch variation side to side to cause a limb to twist on you. Other than that though, they’re a fairly easy build really.

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Beautiful bow, great combination of woods.
a recurve with fiberglass laminations has been on my want- to- do- list for a couple of years and this is inspiring!

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Am I looking at a real left-hand draw? I can’t find a boyer in my area who builds leftys. I’ve been working on my own takedown but it’s nowhere near as nice as this one. Great work!

This one’s right hand draw, but left hand is no harder to make – the only tricky bit is remembering to cut the sight window/arrow shelf on the other side :) The previous one I made was a lefty, I think I double checked things a half dozen times before I started cutting to be sure I didn’t have it backwards.

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Looks great!

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wow great bow!!

Wonderful
Shared this with my Son.

Jamie

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Another one for the bucket list

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absolutely impressive. I still wont give up my compound, but this is quite nice!

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Fantastic! Really, really like what you’ve accomplished. Beautiful riser.

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Wow! That is a great looking bow. I might almost be tempted to switch from compound to recurve if I could make one that looked half as good. I’ll have to ponder that as a project for after hunting season is done.

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A magnificent bow!

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