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Quad lam - 4 laminations - Why not more?
wood_bandit99:
I think above four is ridiculous. The wood would make the limb very heavy and think about this.... Glue is 2x the weight of wood. So if you have a lams worth of glue in the bow it will be slower. Just my 2 cents
Thesquirrelslinger:
--- Quote from: adb on September 03, 2013, 07:30:54 pm ---If you can do a bi-laminate, you can do a tri-lam! The gluing process is no different. If you're using TB glues, your surfaces must be clean, flat and fit exactly. Eliminate 'gap filling' from your vocabulary! I use 2" wide lams, and stack them in whatever combo I'm wanting. Wrap with bicycle inner tubes, and you're good to go. The backing and core lams are usually 1/4" thick, and the belly is whatever thickness is needed to make weight.
Stop leaving laminated bows in direct sunlight!! >:( That's not the bow's fault, that's your fault!! If you treat your bows like firewood, that's exactly what they'll become. :o
--- End quote ---
got a question about trilams-
do i glue it all at once? Cause that is what I did!
adb:
Yes. Definitely. Smooth the glue on all binding surfaces and bind 3 layers with wrapped inner tubes. Same as a backed bow, only you're adding an extra lam.
Cameroo:
Here's a video I made a while back showing how I do it. The video production is not the greatest, but you can get the idea of how it's done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a3nhYpq6cY
adb:
Thanks, Cam!
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