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bamboo laminate build along anyone?
boughnut:
ok talked with my step dad and I did swithc it up he wants a bamboo backed osage belly with IPe core lam. First off course you need to gather your materials and tools. Pictures below show everything that is needed. Raw bamboo backing, Ipe board, osage board or you could work it out of stave. I have already cut the ipe and osage down to the correct width. Tools, hand plain, wood file, sanding block of some sort, scrapers, Non stretch twine, and make yourself some even thickness wedges. you will need the twine and wedges to press your glue joints together. The short two pieces of wood are brazilian cherry you can use any good hard wood for these to make up the handle area. the long piece will end up at 16 inches long and the short one will end up at 8 to 10 inches long. the long piece goes between the lams and the short goes on the belly.
boughnut:
Ok the first step to to prepair your bamboo. the first thing I will do is plane the bamboo down narrow enough to be able to cover the whole width with my planer blade. once I get it narrow enough I will plane the belly side of the boo flat. I will add an update once i get to that point. oh and keep in mind when the planer hits the node areas it will want to chip rather than take a nice shaving off you can skip over it a bit only taking minimal wood off from it and even it out with the rest of the boo using your sanding block.
sharpend60:
Thanks for showing us the build.
More often then not people a using stuff I dont own.
Including a nice tidy shop!
boughnut:
well have not seemed to have gotten as much interest as I hoped to from all the questions about these types of bows I have seen but if I can help answer some questions for even one person I guess I am doing my part to give back to the PA community. anyway I am going to show you a very neat trick with the bamboo tonight so without power tools you can have it precisely tapered. IT has been over a year since I worked one of these bows down with all hand tools so we will see if I still have what it takes lol, Just be prepared for lots of work and have patience if you try one your self this way. A heat box is also good to have I will be using one but really you do not have to as long as you do not heat treat your glue.
NruJaC:
I'm definitely interested to see how you do it. I've got my own approach, but I kinda made it up on my own, and it's far from ideal.
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