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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: l979 on June 22, 2016, 11:25:00 PM
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I want to make a R/D trilam. Target is 66"-68", 50#@28. I have hickory,cherry, maple and ERC to choose from. For core iwas thinking maybe ERC or cherry, I haven't worked with them myself but I've heard they're finnicky for bellies and I don't really wanna deal with that. So maybe Maple/cherry/Maple or Hickory/cherry/maple? What do you guys think? Also for the core, can I use 1/4, rift and plain sawed for that and what about runoff?
Thanks!
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Maple/cherry/maple. Also heat treat your belly lam. Maple is wonderful in compression after it's been heat treated. Grain orientation in the core doesn't matter.
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Grain orientation doesn't matter, but try to keep runouts to a minimum.
Maple/cherry/maple or maple/maple/maple
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Great! Pretty sure I'll do it M/C/M. I was thinking 1 3/4 at the fades out to a third of the limb then taper to 1/2", does it seem reasonable?
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Very reasonable, you could even go full width out to half the limb or more without much downside, but regardless I think 1.75" is good for width. You could probably go narrower, but I personally like to play it safe.