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Ipe/american maple/hickory D warbow

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Loganic:
Absolutely stunning! Beautiful combo. I am so going to try this myself next time I get some more wood from Woodworkers' Source.

Question: What benefit does the core of maple provide? Does it make it more resilient than if that was Ipe?

Mikkolaht:
I totally agree with you Del, functionality before the looks.
I might change the horn if i had the time, but if it works it is good!

And yes, i kinda had to rely on my instinct when reaching for the brace height.
If the brace was too low(below 4'' about) the tips would try to flip back to reflex, almost happened once.
But now that the bow is fully tillered it doesn't do that.

Loganic, great, Ipe is a real joy to work with! It feels like -, and looks like frozen chocolate, peels of really smoothly with cabinet scraper.
In fact cabinet scraper was my only tool on tiller!

From my understanding it makes the limbs lighter, compared to ipe, thus it will cast the arrow faster.
This bow is 695 grams in total weight.

Maple is also very hard (and cheaper than ipe), which is good a good quality for core wood.
It also takes tension well, it makes the bow more resilient.

On top of that maple is excellent at absorbing glue, making it a great core wood to sandwich between two woods.

My piece of maple had quite many runoffs but as core it won't hurt.

Thank you two for the kind words! :)

Pat B:
Cool bow. Hickory and ipe makes a good combo. I like hickory better than bamboo because it's easier to deal with and I don't think you loose all that much performance with hickory vs. boo.
 I made a hickory backed ipe flat bow many years ago. It was 62" long and about 1 3/4" wide out 2/3 each limb and tapering to 3/8" tips. With a 1/8" hickory backing I had to remove most of the ipe getting it tillered to my desired 55#@26". The ipe was way thinner than the hickory backing.
 I've never used maple but it has been used in bows for many years, for selfbows, all wood lam bows and FG lam bows so it must be pretty good bow wood, at least core and backings.

Mikkolaht:
Thank you :)
Ipe is really strong wood indeed.
I have sone bamboo too, I will test these same dimensions with bamboo to see the difference.
From previous experience i agree with you.
Hickory is more enjoyable to prepare and work with than bamboo.

How did the flatbow perform?

Pat B:
That hickory/ipe flat bow shot very well.
 My most successful backed ipe bows were all narrow, between 1" wide to about 1 3/8"  wide. I did make one hickory/ ipe longbow that fretted all the way through the ipe but I'm sure I was more the problem than the ipe with bad tillering.

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