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Snuffy wrote: Voodoo — Please tell us more about your impregnated antler risers! I presume this strengthens antler enough to take the intense pressures exerted on a bow handle. And I presume it would be fairly heavy? Congrats to both you and the unnamed bowyer you’re working with. Gorgeous! Snuffy
DOH! my bad….. His name is James Parker and he won bow of the year with one of his creations in a primitive archery mag.
and yes impregnating antler does add a bit of weight, but it’s nothing objectionable, and they are very, very strong, the strongest Elk bow I’ve built so far has been 62″ and 111#’s at my 30″ draw length and it has a 13 1/2″ riser .. and I drove my lifted 4 door Explorer over my first completed Elk riser suspended between 2 concrete blocks, it suffered only a couple very minor scratches, and with over 4 years of use and over 15,000 shots ‘ol #1 is still going strong….. and just to let everyone know, I’m not taking orders and I haven’t taken an order in over a year. I’m still behind from when I did, they aren’t easy to build……