Guys...excuse my interruption into your sancutary (I'll leave quick).
I know arhery's got it's tradeoffs.
What are the benefits and pitfalls to a short v. a long riser (TD recurve)?
Thanks.
Just "in general" would be great!
Long risers make shorter limbs, and vice versa. If you have a short draw, the longer riser might make the limbs work more for you. A limb is designed to be stressed over a particular length range for best performance. Two different length risers will make two different bows with the same pair of limbs.
SO there aren't advantages and disadvantages of either (in general).....as long as everything (limbs/riser) was built for one another?
Did I say that, correctly?
This is my experience with building laminated bows. I have a longbow I sell, it's 64" in length and I always made it with an 18" riser and it shot very well. On one of these bows I made a 20 riser for the bow to see how it would effect the bow and I can tell you the bow never shot better as far all round performance went. It shot faster and was smoother to draw. The differance was very noticable. So these day I change the riser length on all new models until I find that magic furmula between riser length and limb length, it's well worth the effort and materials...