Anyone know where a fella could get a riser block sized piece of micarta?  I'd love some black canvas stock, about 18"x1.5"x2" or so, but can't seem to find it.  Tried Binghams.  No luck, but I didn't call, just looked in the catologue and online.

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try  abbott plastic    815 874 8500 i have bought black and brown in the size you want
    they have paper and linen and canvas
    harold

Try Old Master Crafters in Waukegan, IL  847.623.2660

Try McMaster Carr Supply  http://www.mcmaster.com/

durn!!!!! .......... That stuff must be made outa some of that $100 a barrel oil !!!!!!  

Besides the obvious what is the difference in paper, linen and canvas micarta??

Madness522:

The micarta gets stronger as you go from paper to linen to canvas.  The flip side is that the "grain" of the micarta gets progressively coarser as you move from paper to canvas.  

Depending what you are going for paper has almost a wood grain look but canvas has a very rough look.  You can see the canvas.  

hope that helps,

Carl

I believe linen would make the best risers. Bob Lee uses Linen Micarta for his risers and overlays. Shawn

where can you get it in black ?? ..... all I see in Mcmasters is natural . Is garolite LE the same thing ?

ttt

I like the canvas patterns.  I also like that you can polish some of the riser surfaces and leave others "rough"... the idea in my head (and I love wood, that is one quality that drew me to tard archery years ago) is a canvas riser, polished on all the surfaces excpet the saddle of the grip area.... might be ugly as sin, probably will be heavy too.... but we'll see.  thanks for all you input fellas!
Mike

try some of the knife maker supply houses they sell it but i dont know how big you can buy it.

forgot you can make your with epoxy,canvas,wood form,wax paper to line form,and a few bricks for pressure. i made some burlap micrata for a knife handle that came out pretty good.you can get the resin at any auto parts.

ttt

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     here,s one i made using the "canvas"       harold

Slinger

did you get that from " Abbott Plastic " that you mentioned in your previous post ???  Do yhry have a website ?

BTW  ....... very nice lookin bow !!