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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Biathlonman on January 09, 2016, 03:18:00 PM
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Guys I've got a block of wood that I would love to have made into bow venners but it looks like the veneers would be a shade over 32". Is that long enough to build with or not worth the trouble? Would that be long enough to make a 64" bow (like a one piece longbow for instance) or is some length lost in the building process?
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Not a lot of length is lost in the building of glass bows, but about the best you could do with it is a 62.5" - 63" bow, if everything went as well as could be expected.
You could always splice a complimentary colored wood onto it before it's resawn and ground, then you could make the bows whatever length you wanted.
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You could use for the belly and do something else on back, like colored glass. Should be able to get a 66" bow that way.
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as Al says if you use it on belly only, the riser at around 4'' will give you more length.
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Probably be ok in TD limbs though.
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on my one piece form I would need 66" minimum to build a 64" hybrid longbow.. I usually glue up a blank 68" long for a 64" bow, then grind/sand the excess off with my belt sander when shaping the limbs. 64" string nock to string nock and plus 3/4" past eack nock = 65 1/2" long total.. (http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt46/Robertfishes/bow18march2013a_zps4877c46a.jpg) (http://s596.photobucket.com/user/Robertfishes/media/bow18march2013a_zps4877c46a.jpg.html)