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Ash/Bamboo or Walnut/Bamboo

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bd2cool:
Thanks,

I have two hickory/bamboo  and they both shoot great.
I didn't want to waste any bamboo on wood  that couldn't take it.

Hillbilly:
The walnut backed with the ash would probably be a good combo, too.

comix:
I build an walnut (american walnut) with boo backing recently... worked fine for me.
Keep the limbs a little wider perhapes and the backing as thin as you can get it.

Pat B:
You can always use a trapezoidal cross section. That way your belly is wider than the back and the compression stresses are spread out more on the wider belly.    Pat

M-P:
Hi, I built one bamboo backed ash bow several years ago.  I used 1 3/4 in wide lumber yard ash and strips from a narrow bamboo pole.  I split the pole and flattened each strip, then laid them parallel as baking.  The strips were quite thin,  ( almost like strips from a window blind.)  I got a shootable bow ~ 40# but ~ 1 3/4 inches of string follow.  My feeling has always been that even that thin bamboo backing over powered the ash.  Of course it could be that I'm just not talented a bowyer.              Ron

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