A couple years ago I helped finish an old pearson warf milk had...I didn't like the look of the wide pockets so I marked them with limbs in and started grinding away... it is still one of my best shooting bows I have...
Two and a half years ago My dad told me that he had an old pearson target bow that he had picked up a few years back in hopes of shooting spots again using fingers. It had just set out in his garage for about 10 years so he told me to go out in the garage and get that old bow and make it into a recurve if I wanted. At the time I didn't really feel up to the task... shortly after my dad passed away, about a month later I was out in his shop...sad, missing him, I looked over and that bow was still hanging on the wall. I took it home and disassembled it on my press. The blue powder coat was loose from the riser so I chipped all of it off with my pocket knife...I thought to myself "if I'm going to do this, I want it to look good. Being the procrastinater that I am...two years pass and I wake up out of the blue and for some reason I had a fire under my rear end to finish my dad's riser...I installed the plates with epoxy and drilled and tapped for two set screws per plate...the limbs and pockets were lined up prior using a carpentry laser. Now I had to deal with those darn wide limb pockets! Once again, I marked and cut out the pockets to match the ilf limbs. Now, what to do with the radius part of the pocket where the rockers sat... I filled the section with jb weld...grabbed my rat tail rasp and went to town reshaping the ends of the riser. Used the remaining jb weld to radius the shelf. It didn't take long to get it the way I had imagined. After a coat of sandable primer, I sanded everything smooth and decided on a textured camo paint job... Went with a textured "prairie camo" style and did the limbs as well. Snapped on the original grip...used an 5/16-18 "elevator" bolt for an adjustable strike plate and a chrome acorn nut to lock it down.
I am a happy camper when I look at this bow and it shoots like a dream. I think my dad would have liked it as well.
