Is it possible or practical to add another thickness of glass to the face or back of an existing glass laminate to increase the weight of a bow without disrupting the shooting of a bow? I have a bow I'd like to refinish, but don't want to lose any draw weight in case I'd get carried away on sanding. Right now it is lower in weight than I would like. I was thinking about this as an option.
I would sell it and buy a higher weight. Very impractical idea.
Wasn't there someone on this site that was taking old risers and putting new limbs on them?
Dave
Mike at Maddog just put new limbs on my broken "59 Kodiak and it is a fine shooter!!!You cna get the weight and lenght you want also. Drawback only black or brown glass, but my '59 is in brown and a beauty. It can be seenover on stickbow in the *********** as custom '59 kodiak. Dick
ksbowman, you won't loose any weight if you don't get carried away.
Instead of sanding use a straight edged knife and scrap the finish off. I done a few bows and most of the older finishes just fly off the bow.....wear goggles! Then sand with fine grit where needed. Go easy on the limb edges.
I tried it one time with a set of limbs that I made that came out too light, I roughed them up, cleaned with laquer thinner, put them back on the form, and glued another piece of clear glass over them (back of the limb)with Smooth-on. For some reason they did'nt adhere, I junked the limbs abd started over.