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[USMC93]

Hello everyone,
I was thinking of trying a glass bow setup. I wanted to give a plain black glass (Bo-Tuff E Glass, UL .030 x 2(front and back)) with .125 x 2 red oak and a 21" red oak raiser in the Bingham 60" recurve. Would this be too thick for a 45# bow. I was looking over the Bow Draw Weight chart and if my calculation are right I'd be at .310 thick. thank you in advance.

[Trux Turning]

On the bingham chart they show .262 stack for a 45# bow.

[bigbob2]

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[fujimo]

wouldnt that redoak riser need quite a bit of reinforcement-
both i beam and other transverse reinforcements!

[JamesV]

.310 won't give you 45#. Using some previous builds as a guide, I would go .250 and it will give more like 50# @ 28". You didn't mention any taper in the lams. I would use .003 taper for your recurve. Without any taper you will get a lot more bend at the fades.

James

[Mad Max]

Originally posted by Trux Turning:
On the bingham chart they show .262 stack for a 45# bow.

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go to the binghams site
on the left
"Bow draw weight chart"
Good luck