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Pat B:
I went to the corner of shame today and pulled out a boo backed hickory I started a couple of years ago. This is the first boo backing I got perfect but I overzealously created a hinge near one of the tips.  Well today, I ground down the hickory backing to about 1/8" thich.
   While cleaning my shop(can you believe that!) I came across 2 pieces of vertical laminated boo. This stuff is made up(laminated) of pieces about 3/16"widex1/4"thick and is in 3' lengths and 2" width.
   How would this laminated boo work as a belly for this boo backed bow? I'm sure I will violate the power fibers when I retiller it. Should I look for other options?     Pat

snedeker:
I sed that stuff some, never on the belly though, when I was wild and yound and crazy and never got a bow out of it, although it  was me  and not the strips. I bet it would work, although it might be a spongy shooter cause of the lack of oomph in the interior of the boo.  Hey, another option is to use a backing strip of boo for the belly for a hickory sandwich bow.

Dave

Marc St Louis:
Actually Pat, Bowmonkey(Russell Bartlow) made a bow out of some Bamboo flooring several years ago and it turned out very fast

tom sawyer:
It makes a quite acceptable bow belly.  The stuff has the mass to be a good bow belly, and it works a lot like wood.  A lot of people are using this bamboo flooring stuff for backed bows, a friend of mine in Alaska has made many nice bows out of it..  I got a piece from Russell a few years ago, made a real nice hickory-backed pyramid out of it.  The bow broke but ony because I used a really skinny design and then stupidly left the bow at 70+lb (the tiller looked great and I didn't want to mess it up).

MattE:
Pat, I am workng on a bow that that happens to be too short for the design I chose. Needing a few more inches to make it serviceable. I chose to put an extension on the limbs.What I m trying to do is cut a branch with part of the thunk left to make my limbs have a natural back set.My intent is to split the branch so as to have to pieces with exactly the same off set.Glue and sinew is what I am goin to use to attatch the parts to my bow. This might work for you since your problem is close to the tips. It should add a little more cast to the bow as well.This is uncharted territory for me.

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