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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: longrifle on April 03, 2015, 10:29:00 AM
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I was wondering if anybody knew if these bows were made with a solid bamboo backing and actionboo lams or solid bamboo backing and solid bamboo lams?
I'm looking to possibly make a bow that is similar.
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The ones that I have had in hand were all solid bamboo. I have built all bamboos and more recently helped a friend finish one that used bamboo flooring capped with solid bamboo, no tapered lambs, I had to tiller through the belly lam. It seemed to shoot about as good as any of the other all bamboos. I should ask him what he did to make parallel laminations out of that stuff. He got his pieces from some carpenter that had some extra after doing a basement floor for somebody, the local lumber yard does not sell it by the piece.
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Thanks Pavan for the info. I have some bamboo flooring and a solid backing strip I would like to use. Do you have any stack info that might be helpful to me?
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at the fade out his was 5/8" to 3/8" at the tip, limb width was 1&1/8" to 5/8". My 80 pounder was 3/4" at the fades to 9/16" thick and 66" long. I used a flat backed riser, which gave it a natural 3/4" back set because of the lam tapers. The one for my friend laid straight because there was no tapers to the lams to begin with, it does take a slight set after being loaded for a spell, but after a while it gets nearly back to its original straight layup. I am guessing that his is in the mid fifties at my 26.5" draw. We never weighed it.
We used urac for glue and a portable ice shack with an electric space heater to heat the form.
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That's just what I needed Pavan thanks
Gerald
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Any pics of those bows??