Mersa wrote on Oct 7
th, 2017 at 3:43am:
Just thought of something.
How hard is it to make a riser??
And , can I put the limbs off my bow onto a homemade short riser.
Would reducing the riser from 25 to 13 inch increase poundage?
Thinking it would be shorter and lighter , maybe get lightweight hardware.
Then I would have built part of it and might tick all the boxes
Hard depends on your skill level. It would definitely be a good project to feel connected to your bow. I dont think its an easy first-timer project though. It depends on what kind of tools you have and your ability to research and overall skill level in woodworking. Yes, you should be able to transfer those limbs to a homemade riser. After all, your current one is nothing more than a block of material of the right shape and hardware. Nothing special about it.
All other things being equal a shorter riser will yield a higher poundage bow. Making your own riser would also allow you to choose the angle the limbs connect at on your riser which would allow you some variability in the stack/early string tension as well as other variables such as peak leverage at full draw. All fun things to play around with.
If I were doing this project I would practice on cheaper woods such as hickory. Once I had the knack down and knew all the likely mistakes I would switch to a hard, heavy wood for the final product.