From: LuckyStrike
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Hello guys and gals!
How many Frankenbows can one have? I got two... Just built the black one out of an old Jennings Black Lightning and Samick Journey 45# limbs. What a great shooting bow. This one I will weight the pockets using hot glue and lead shot... Shall be fun!
Anyways post your pictures of your clan of Frankenbows!
Lucky
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From: LuckyStrike
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Very cool. Did the limbs just bolt on?
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From: rock74
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I did bolt ons on the black bear risers and Golden Eagle risers, now about to do another Eagle.
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From: arrowchucker
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I've said it a thousand times! If you know how many bows you have, you don't have enough! Triple didgits is getting close.
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From: Gator1
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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So I have an old darton compound how hard is it to retrofit it for limbs?
Are these old limbs?
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From: KyPhil
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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I put these journey limbs on this old hoyt riser. Thrse bows shoot as well as anything out there.
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From: fdp
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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Depends on which Darton riser. Some of them are very easy, (requiring nothing be done) some aren't. I use new or new to me limbs on mine typically.
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From: 1/2miledrag
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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I am on the verge of owning my first warf. I located a black bear riser and ordered up ilf conversion plates last night, as well as a set of black max #45 limbs. I am stoked to get it all together and shoot.
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From: guzman4505
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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Mitch, I had an older darton m50 riser that i was able to get sage limbs on it. i used a few shims and padsfor center the limbs. the thing shot great. Theres a picture of it on the site somewhere.
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From: scs
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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I don't have a lot of Franenbows, but I Frankenbowed a frankenbow. Started life as a Martin Mystic compound, a set of jaguar limbs made it a 64" recurve. Got a Tracer Mag riser and it's now a 60" and not as reflexed as the Mystic.
Steve
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 21-Apr-17 |
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Gator1, they are using Samick Sage limbs mostly, no old limbs...these are new and you can buy them very reasonably. Normally just bolt them on and add spacers to each side if necessary.
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From: PeteA
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Date: 22-Apr-17 |
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Can you guys tell me how you know what weight limbs to buy? From reading a bunch of these posts it sounds like the final weight will depend on the riser pocket angle and the riser length not necessary the limb weight you buy. I have a Pearson Spoiler compound from the 80s. Loved that bow. I'd really like to Frankenbows it.
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From: fdp
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Date: 22-Apr-17 |
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Pete, post a picture of the riser and the end to end length and we can get you pretty close.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 22-Apr-17 |
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PeteA, over on Ebay you can find Greatree limbs, Sage limbs, October Mountain limbs, all for less than $80.00 a pair, and nearly all are the same...pretty much anyway.
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From: NJWoodsman
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Date: 22-Apr-17 |
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You can have as many as you need to try until you get the right one! I've had a few good, but not great, ones. It's cheap, fun experimenting, but they're called Frankenbows for a reason.
I converted a Bear Hunter riser with Samick Woodsman limbs, a Hoyt Pro Hunter with Quinn limbs, then I got into the store-bought metal riser bows- a Quinn Stingray, Hoyt Gamemaster, (a wood Titan with ILF in between) then finally, a Tiburon.
Setting aside aesthetics and resale value, the important thing to me is having good ILF or Formula limbs.
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