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Paper backed black cherry, expected goal weight with this mass and dimensions

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Badger:
  I just finished a black cherry with hickory back this morning. 71" nock to nock  60#@28", I was going for 70# but I tapered the ourside limbs a bit too much when I roughed it out. I roughed out out at 1 3/8 wide and after refinements came in a 1 5/16 wide. Upon finishing the bow I found it was slightly short of hitting the 5/8 longbow ratio and had to slightly narrow it to 1.2"  to meet the ratio requirement, this dropped it to 57#@28".  I started off with 1 3/4" reflex glued up as a full even radius ( important) The bow finished with 1 1/8" reflex.  Mass weight was 17.2 0z. It cast a 500 grain broadhead  drawing under 27" 212 yards. I was very happy with it.

  As for your bow, I would not waste my time with a paper back, cherry is very poor in tension. A very thin backing of ash, maple, even oak would work fine. My favorite hunting bow for many years was a red oak backed cherry.

Badger:
    Your biggest challenge at that weight will be meeting the 5/8 ratio rule. A full arc of the circle tiller and 1" maximum reflex with a finished demension of 1 1/4" should work but only if you use a solid backing. 

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