Help to Make a short recurve

[ozwoody]

Hi all it has been a long time since I was last here.
I would like to know if someone could give me some help, I would like to make a short recurve much like the great Bear Kodiac super mag 48"
A good friend of mine is in a wheelchair and has asked to make one for him, I have mad a few longbows and have the charts from Binghams. I have a side profile of the bow but do not know limb wides or where to start with core thickness for a bow anywhere from 40#to 50#.
I was thinking of making the core out of bamboo and the riser is 10.5" long with an unstrung length of 43.5".
Any thoughts?

[LittleBen]

Why not just build a replica of the bear super mag? The design works and that would remove a lot of guessing. Just a thought.

[jess stuart]

Touch base with Bjansen and Trux Turning.  They both built replicas of the Herters little 46" recurve.  They could give you a place to start as far as stack goes. What draw length does your friend have.  I build a 48" and 50" takedown if you would like to go that route, let me know and I will try to help you out.

[peanut39350]

Pm me your email address i have prints for a 46" recurve that i will send you it is a sweet shooter

[ozwoody]

That is what I would like to do but I don't have a bow to go off LittleBen.

[ozwoody]

Hi all, I have made a start on a bow thanks to peanut39350.
Form is made, laminations underway and the riser made.
I would like to put some pics of them but not sure how to.
ozwoody

[KenH]

Put your pix on Photoshop or something similar, then get the URLs from there.  Use the Full Reply Form, and you'll see where to add things.

[Mad Max]

Super mag riser is 16" long, I have one.

[ozwoody]

Thank KenH but what do you mean put the pix on Photoshop then get the URL's? I edit the size of my photos with photoshop but do not see anything about URL's on there.
Thanks

[monterey]

He meant photo bucket   www.photobucket.com

[KenH]

PhotoBucket. Doh!  Senior moment there.  Mea culpa!

[ozwoody]

I glued up one of these short curves today but I think I may of done something wrong to the form as I could not get it to come down onto the riser, no problems I worked around it by just gluing the lams and glass and I will glue the riser in later.
I used 2 0.050" by 0.001/1" vertical bamboo lams and 1.75" wide 0.050" black glass.

[Trux Turning]

I've had success adding wedges (in this case dowels) to put additional pressure onto the ramps of the riser.

[ozwoody]

Ok I see that would help. But I think I cut out to much where the riser is. Think I will have to make a new form or see if I can fix this one.

[monterey]

Can you change the riser?

[ozwoody]

I might be able to have to sit down and have a good look and do some thinking.

[fujimo]

if you still have the piece you cut out- you could glue it back in and re cut.

or
cut out a square area- in the offending part of the form, and glue in a new chunk- then re cut- that top side doesnt need to be as perfect as the bottom side
easy fix- dont toss the old form

[ozwoody]

I did think of that but was not sure if I could do that. I was not going to toss it.

[fujimo]

glue in with some of the smooth on- gap filling.
good luck!
cant wait to see the finished bow  

[ozwoody]

I have tried to get photos in the posts but can not maybe you can see them on the ozzy trad forum ozbow so here is a link to my post there
 http://www.ozbow.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=16064&sid=b1c92d378d51e0ca32a561bc7f60063c