New Riser for Samick Sage limbs

[BenBow]

I bought a cheap set of Samick Sage limbs to make a recurve short enough to shoot out of my pop up blind. I didn't want to go to the trouble of building my own form and building a set of limbs. So I started out using an old compound riser but didn't like the weight and how noisy it was. So I looked through my pile of wood and picked out some jatoba I picked up last november. I guessed at the angle of the riser based on the original limbs made a 50# 62" bow on a 20" riser. I ended up with a 22 degree limb pad angle and an 18" riser which produced 49.6# at 28". Sometimes I'm blessed. It shoots good and is pretty quiet so it should work great out of my blind.
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[BenBow]

ttt wi new pictures

[JJB]

I'd say that turned out really well, you should be very happy with that.  I like the shape of your riser.
-Jay

[rmorris]

Galen, looks good!

[LittleBen]

Well played

[Hojo]

I really like it!  

I have a "carsage" (sage limbs on a plastic Cartel riser) that shoots great, but all that plastic makes for a lot of noise.  

I'd like to follow your lead on this, so I have a couple of questions, if you don't mind:  

First, it looks like you don't have any pockets for the limbs on your riser.  How stable are the limbs without pockets?  Do you have any concerns about them rotating on the bolts?

Also, I'm curious as to how you implemented the bolts.  Did you use inserts?  

Thanks, Howard

[BenBow]

Hojo you can see in the picture above that I drilled the limb bolt hole clear through the riser. Then I drill the hole on the belly side big enough to allow me to have a snug fit for the brass insert that has 5/16X18 threads on the inside. Then I put a lot of smoothon epoxy into the hole and screwed the insert in while pulling it with a 5/16" bolt from the back side. You can use the inserts from Kenny or Binghams if you want I just had these available and have used similar ones for my bows that I hide the t-nuts in the limbs and screw the limb bolts in from the riser.
Here's a picture of the threaded adapter.
 

[BenBow]

Hojo I drill the 5/16" hole first. Then I line the limbs up so they're centered with the riser. I use a doweling jig to drill the pin holes through the limb into the riser so everything lines up correctly. With the pins in the riser and the limbs bolted on I fill empty space in the limb pin holes with 1/4" oak dowels. Then I drill a matching hole for the limb bolt hardware in some scrap black glass and glue it on the limb to cover the pin holes.
 

[LittleBen]

I like the attachment system.

[Hojo]

Great info, BenBow.  Thanks for taking the time to do the photos.  Very helpful!

[Shifting Shadow]

Great project!

[Dave Bowers]

A fine job  

[kennym]

Nice job Galen!! Looks great!