I'm working on a curly maple backed cherry bow for my wife. It's spliced in the handle, very straight grain on the cherry with approx. 1/8th inch curly maple backing. It's about 64" long, 2" wide at the fades, 1 3/4" wide mid limb and tapers to 1/2" tips. I'm aiming to get 30# @ 26", just something she can target shoot with (for now).
I glued everything up w/ tb3 and got it roughed down to floor tiller but the cherry belly is already less than 1/4" thick and I feel like if I pulled it to full draw it would pull 70-80#. I've heard cherry likes to be wide and flat but I don't want to get it too thin and get down to just a maple bow. Can I safely make the bow narrower than 2" (side tiller kind of) to take the weight down? Any suggestions on what a beginning width would be?
I'm really please with how this bow is coming along and don't want to screw it up. I'd love to get it done for Christmas but I still have to build a tillering tree. Maybe it'll be a little bit late for Christmas.
Thanks in advance for any advice.