Lams

[Crooked Stic]

Let's say you built two identical bows same design same stack except one has veneers so two more lams. The one with veneers will have more springboks out of the form. So how much more poundage will it have. Just did it and about 4 lbs different??

[dbeaver]

I have some interest in this.  I dont have enough bows under my belt to see what happened, but i laid up 2 bows one was meant to be 40 and the other 45.  When i glued up i was using bocote veneer in the 40lb stack and tineo veneer in the 45.  I had to swap which bow was going to end up being the 40lber because the tineo came in at 44 ish, veneer were similar thickness near .020 and the stacks were correctly glued up for the proper poundage.  So now i have a 40lb bocote finished at 45 and the tineo i took down until it hit 40.  I must have done something else because i cant see a bocote veneer at .020 being that much stiffer than a tineo veneer.