Quamick or Qwoodsman?

[OZ in MT]

Some of you may have recently kibitzed or contributed on Biblethumpincop's thread (Main Forum) about adapting a Samick Woodsman riser to oly limbs. I love the big, heavy, friendly Woodsman riser and I think it would make a great riser for a 35# class target bow (I need this every once in a while when my shoulder starts remembering all those hits I've taken). The Woodsman's limb angle and configuration don't lend themselves to olys, IMO, but a set of Quinn Stallions looks achievable. I've got the Stallions on order from PB. The main problems in the hook-up are:
-The Woodsman's distance from center of limbolt to center of locator pin is 1.480" and the Stallions are 1.572".
-The Stallions have the locator pin in them and the Samick has it on the riser.
-The Stallions' pin is 1/8 dia. and the Samick's is 1/4".
-I don't want to modify the Woodsman to the point where I can't use the existing 54# limbs. They are a bit slow but perform very well with a heavy (10 gpp) arrow.
One saving grace for maintaining the Samick to Samick set-up is that the Woodsman has a second locator pin that fits snugly into a routered slot in the limb butt. I won't have any problem routing the same slot into the Stallions. It's the outside pin-pinhole mismatch that has me scheming. My current favorite solution is to remove or cut off both the riser pin on the Woodsman and the limb pin on the Stallions and just retap in another spot. I'd welcome any thoughts from the group, even those that simply tell me I've made a bad judgment and shouldn't even try this (those are ones that really motivate me - LOL).

Thoughts ... ?

[Bob Gordon]

As far a locating pins goes I would pull the Samick pin out with a pair of Vicegrips and just redrill a locator hole for the Quinn limbs. You can always put the pin back in for the original limbs..warf

[Biblethumpncop]

Well, I didn't use the samick riser, but I did use a wood riser for an inexpesive bow and adapted some stallion limbs to it. It came out good. I'll try and post some pictures.

[OZ in MT]

I'd much rather pull the pin than cut it off, Warf, but do you think I'll be able to pull it without damage from the Samick? The reason I ask this is that the Samick riser's pin is embedded in a 1/8" thick phenolic pad - just not sure if it will come out as easy and safely as with wood or a much thinner phenolic pad. Could be I'm way over-cautious because of inexperience>

[Bob Gordon]

OZ...How easy it comes out will depend if it's glued in or just a press fit. Look real close at the base of the pin and see if you can see any glue. My bet it is just a press fit. Put some Vicegrips on it and try to twist it, if it moves then just work it out carefully. If it looks glued in then put a soldering iron it until it gets pretty warm and twist it out...warf

[OZ in MT]

Thanks, Bob. What would us gremmies do without the voice of experience?

[Bob Gordon]

OZ...If all else fails just get a bigger hammer, works for me..lol....warf

[Biblethumpncop]

Here is a picture I promised. I sent you an email OZ, want to hear about that woodsman.

[OZ in MT]

You've got mail, John. BTW, great looking conversion!