I have a question for the lamenated bow builders. I made a lam bow in the Hill style in the late 80's that was too much weight for me now. I narrowed the tips, sanded the glass, and rounded the glass on the corners of the limbs and got the bow down 3 pounds to 63#@28". I took it squirrel hunting and shot some targets and while weighting another bow, weighed it again. To my surprise, it had lost 3 more pounds which is great. My question, is this normal?
Normally no, but if you have a real high % of wood core to glass, maybe?
Depending on the length, probably had .050 glass on it?
I see you sanded the glass and narrowed, so glass may be thin allowing it to take a set?
Just ramblin out loud....
Thanks Kenny for the reply. I think you are probably right. I did take quite a bit off the glass and it is very deep cored. Now I'm curious about possible loss of speed.
Does it have string follow?
Those are sposed to be very forgiving and shootable!!