wood advice

[tomsm44]

I'm not a boyer, but I have looked into giving it a try.  Bingham has a plans for a 48" TD youth recurve.  I think they only sell limb kits for it up to around 30#, but you could get the blueprints from them and look at their draw weight charts to try to estimate your stack thickness for 40-45#.  Possibly an option that would require less trial and error.  As for the long vs. short argument, I think I'll remain neutral.