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Title: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on February 17, 2009, 07:53:00 PM

My first thought was natural camo effect! What say ye?

  (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/kennym/101_1811.jpg)

  (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/kennym/101_1810.jpg)

We'll try this over here! LOL

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: recurvehunter on February 17, 2009, 08:01:00 PM

kennny do you have a website i might be interested in ordering some laminations some time   thanks

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on February 17, 2009, 08:18:00 PM

Sure do,just got some nice bocote in also today!

 http://kennyscustomarchery.com/index.html

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: Big Riser on February 17, 2009, 10:37:00 PM

Nice lams, going to have to come and see you some time. Im in nebraska about a 3 hour drive away.

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: Big Riser on February 17, 2009, 10:41:00 PM

Kenny are you going to compton in june?

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: rpembert on February 18, 2009, 01:24:00 AM

Beutiful wood there Kenny. What is it? I also like the frog. Is he wishing for warmer weather?

Joshua

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on February 18, 2009, 08:00:00 PM

Come on down Frank,not sure of compton,usually farmin too then.

Josh,its strand woven bamboo. Not sure how its made,but looks to be long strips woven together,then glued and pressed together.Haven't used any yet,am gonna try to talk my bro into puttin it in his new bow! LOL

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: monterey on February 24, 2009, 02:35:00 PM

Kenny, I looked at your site and am not sure if I found your veneers or not????

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on February 24, 2009, 09:05:00 PM

Hey Mike,
Don't have those veneers on the site yet,won't sell anything  new I haven't put in a bow to see how it behaves. Did sell an uncut pc of it to a guy with the understanding that I knew nothing about its behavior in a bow!

Any wood can be a lam or a veneer I guess,just usually call the really thin ones veneers,theres a few pics on this page.......
 http://kennyscustomarchery.com/page04.html

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: mwmwmb on February 24, 2009, 09:29:00 PM

good looking stuff let us know how it works.

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: monterey on February 24, 2009, 10:41:00 PM

Ok, I understand now.  I'm looking for some thin veneers to go front and back under two sets of plain hardrock I already have on hand.  A veneer would truly make a diff over the plain maple but don't want to push draw weights too much.  One of these bows will go to a 15 year old.  He's a big kid but don't want to over bow him and get him into bad habits.

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on February 24, 2009, 10:55:00 PM

I can go down to .020,but that would be quite a bit when you add 2 of them to the stack.

Can you do 2 thin lams back and belly and one maple in the core?

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: monterey on February 26, 2009, 01:16:00 AM

I could leave out one 72" maple parralel I guess.  I gotta get the lams out of the rafters and measure them.  Don't want to let it get too light.  Both of these guys draw pretty long so shortening the bow is a limited option.

Gonna put the calipers to the lams and see what I got.

Thanks for the tip.  Simple solution, but it never occured to me.  :banghead:

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: monterey on March 05, 2009, 09:31:00 PM

Quote

Originally posted by kennym:
I can go down to .020,but that would be quite a bit when you add 2 of them to the stack.

Can you do 2 thin lams back and belly and one maple in the core?

My maple parralels run .066 so leaving one out and adding two .020 would still be .026 short of the planned stack.  It would probably be too much weight reduction.  I'm going to stick with what I have for these two bows but will probably order a set of lams including veneers from you for the next project.

Thanks for your help

Title: Re: How bout these veneers??
Post by: kennym on March 05, 2009, 11:15:00 PM

You're welcome!  :wavey: