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Robinwho:
I have quite a few exotic woods pieces about 48" inches long and 8 to 10 Wide By 1 inch thick
Am planing to sliced to make laminated bows, what thickness should I cut them to ? 1/16 or what ?
I never done laminated bows before, but these are beautifully bocote,rose wood ,sapele, zebra wood, I figure they will make beautiful bows and risers.

Jbell:
Are you talking about bamboo or Hickory backed bows? For a Bamboo reflex deflex bow that I typically make, The belly slat is about a 7/16 or 1/2" with a 1/8 or 3/16 taper from handle to tip, that will get me a 60-65 pounder. But their are many factors involved, meaning amount of reflex,deflex, recurve, length, draw weight and so on and soforth. I guess It is kind of hard to answer your question without knowing what exactly you are after. For someone who has never made a backed bow I would suggest watching Dean Torges' video about bamboo backed bows, this will get you started. Also probably not a good idea to make a tri-lam bow on your first try. Hope this helps some.

Robinwho:
Not Backing a bow , but making a bow with laminations of different woods.

I have made hundreds if not a thousand bows and have backed them with everything under the sun.
But making bows with 3 or 4 laminations I have not.

I found this site with some instruction but it lacks a lot;

http://www.lothac.com/Stry_buildabow.html

Jbell:
I got ya. So you are talkin about a laminated glass bow? Can't help ya there, never messed with the itchy stuff, only on old Corvettes.
 :o Normally this board is for natural materials only, but i will let someone else chime in on that. ;D

GraemeK:
Hi Robin?
The article you mentioned talks about building a laminated bow with fiber glass back and belly but the glass is not necessary if you want to build an all wood bow. I often build tri lam all wood bows and with the appropriate choice of timber they very effective allowing a light core with high tension material on the back and high compression material on the belly. Obviously one of the main advantages of this type of bow is that you can glue as much reflex in as you want.

Graeme

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