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superdav95:
Love em. Beautiful lines
bassman211:
Flawless glue lines. E :BBxcellent work.
lonbow:
Those are very nice bows, simk! Beautiful shapes and flawless glue lines.
I'm also very interested in this topic, as I'm also planning to make laminated bows out of European bow woods in the future. I'm also happy to hear that European hornbeam does well as a belly wood, as I own a small forest with lots of European hornbeam in it :)
Even though I haven't built any laminated bows yet, I have some thoughts about black locust:
Bruno Ballweg, a well known bowyer from Germany makes laminated bows with black locust as a corewood.
After hearing about this, I tested and compared the properties of black locust and Osage: both woods were sold as foreshaft materials with a diameter of 11/32 ". I spine tested both kinds of woods. If I remember correct, Osage spined at about 35. Black locust spined significantly higher at about 50. Black locust might not be as good in compression as Osage, but it's much stiffer with the same dimensions. That might be an ideal candidate for a core.
I'm very interested in your findings!
cheers,
lonbow
mmattockx:
--- Quote from: simk on January 03, 2023, 09:12:07 am ---Apart of minor flaws they came out pretty well
--- End quote ---
Man, your detail work and workmanship is just superlative and the tiller is always spot on.
Mark
simk:
thanks for nice words everybody :)
lonbow: I know Brunos bow's - they are highlights of craftmanship. way to go....
about the midlam topic: imho its only function is to transfer the forces between back and belly. from that point of view I often wondered about bowyers using tough and heavy woods like cumaru, greenheart and even ipe as a midlam. I really dont think the additional stiffness of a certain midlam material will make any difference at the end of the day. from my point of view the type of midlam has little to no influenece to energy storage and therefore the wood only needs to be light and pretty. maybe I'm totally wrong.
cheers and good luck with your small forest :) (and dont forget to post more of your bows)
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