Its a 65 Bear Grizzly.  It says 55# but feels like 65#.  Haven't weighed it with my scale yet, but would like to bring it down at least 5lbs.  Would rather not sand the the flats, but was wondering if I carefully sanded the limbs edges equally would that work?  I read the thread on "trapping" would that work?  Would rather not wreck the bow because of the beautiful zebra wood.

I think I'd trade it off for a bow with the correct weight.

Depending on how rounded the sides are now you can maybe get 4-5 off getting aggressive. Kinda small trap on both sides.
Although I would vote for getting the correct weight bow and sell that one.

Make personal feeling on reducing weight is that if you wouldn't be comfortable doing the tillering during the building process, you probably shouldn't try reducing the weight.. Especially on a bow you cherish.

Reducing weight isn't necessarily going to go a smoothly as 10 strokes on each edge and done. Particularly if you have to take off a fair amount of material. It can be hard to do both sides the same.

I put this kind of thing in the category of "if you have to ask".

I'm just saying I would not be cutting my teeth on a bow I care about.

Thanks all.  I've refinished a couple of bows, that I know inadvertently reduced weight a couple pounds by over sanding the limbs.  This bow has numerous stress lines and cosmetic issues, so I thought it would be a fun winter project.  I've also realized that if alter a vintage bow I will never sell it to anyone else.  So I guess it goes back to the classifieds!  Thanks again

Sand the face of the glass like the factory did.  I recently bought two vintage bows and both had heavy sanding marks and ripples in the limbs, under the factory decals.

James