Howard Hill bows are pretty famous for using bamboo like the big 5 had 5 boo laminations...but wouldnt a bow be faster if it had 5 wood lams instead?...whats the difference?...wouldnt all wood be a faster bow?
Speed comes from design not material used. 2 lams of maple sandwiched between 2 lams of fiberglass with the right design will be just about as fast as you can get. And don't forget the Big 5 had a lam of fiberglass on the back and belly :bigsmyl: ...Van
well I meant the fiberglass on the front and back to go without saying
Yep. I doubt the Big 5 would be faster with 5 lams of wood vs bamboo. Not a bowyer but bamboo is pretty light. With that much core thickness it probably makes a difference with bamboo...Van
well the reason that I thought it would is because the bamboo doesnt seem as springy as the wood...by the way...I'm sooo much cooler online too...LOL
Bamboo lam bows feel "smoother" to me than wood lams. I know, as a material, bamboo is higher tensile strength than almost all woods. I've refinished rods from the 'Teens and '20's with tips less than .064", that were still fishing strong.
Kevin
I have 2 Hummingbirds (1 longbow 1 recurve) with bamboo cores they are the smoothest bows I have shot, including foam core ILF. I have a Morrison, and a Das I can interchange the limbs on them. for those I have a set of Hoyt G3's foam core and carbon and a set that came with the Das Dalaa they are maple and carbon. Both are nice limbs but the bamboo on the Hummingbirds I'll take hands down,