I've been working on this one, gotto fix a 'little' problem, and needs a finsish.
Current stats:
80#@28"
62" ntn
pyramidal frontprofile, glued up in R/D
My first trilam ever I had glued up. Choose for a 7mm maple core, and based it on a similar bow, but without r/d, and with 2 lams instead of 3. Made a measuring error, and the bow ended up too stiff. This core was a little too thick, and the reason for the compression fracture in the lower midlimb, as I had to sand of most of the ipé.
Not as bad as in the other bow, with a 3mm core. This was a Hybrid, with quite a bit of reflex, and 58" tall. I had to sand so much of the originally 2 ipé lams off, that I ended up with one, paperthin lam at the belly, wich got huge compression fractures;
please don't make the same mistakes as I did, and don't start with a lightweight core if you make a trilam from an unknown design. Who would have thought that a 3mm (1/8") core would have been too thick?
Okay,
now I have one other blank with a likely too thick core. Glued together with titebond. Any idea how to delaminate it properly, without hurting the wood? will heat work? might start a new topic on this.
I'm thinking about filling the little crysal with superglue, then finish the bow. What do you guys think?
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding075.jpg)
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding079.jpg)
(lower bow is the surviving one)
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding080.jpg)
compression fracture in the lower limb of the 'surviver'
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding082.jpg)
yeah, the ipé was real thin..
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding083.jpg)
and it was even worse on the quadlam-who-became-a ipé veneer bellied boo backed maple
![](http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh367/hanshanssam/bows2/wood%20laminates/Afbeelding084.jpg)
Nick